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same, such person shall be allowed to adduce before such Justices, proof 

 of his capacity to discharge the duties of a Pilot, upon which and after hear- 

 ing the Inspector or a Measurer, in support of the reasons for such refusal, 

 the said Justices shall grant or withhold a license as they shall see most 

 conducive to the purposes of this Act. 



4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any 

 Pilot having charge of any scow or raft, shall leave Chateauguay to pro- 

 ceed through the rapids to Montreal, before the same shall have been 

 measured as to the depth of water which such scow or raft then draws, and 

 branded as hereinbefore directed, every such Pilot shall for every such 

 oftence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding forty shillings current money 

 of this Province. 



5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if any 

 person not being a Licensed Pilot as aforesaid, shall, for hire or payment 

 of any wages, undertake to conduct or pilot through the rapids from 

 Chateauguay to Montreal, any scow, loaded in part or in whole, or any raft 

 of oak timber or staves, or other lumber or firewood, every person so offend- 

 ing shall for every such offence, forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding forty 

 shillings current money of this Province. 



Owner may Act as Pilot. 



6. Provided, always, and be it further enacted by the authority afore- 

 said that nothing in this Act contained, shall extend, or be construed to 

 extend, to prevent any person or persons from conducting and piloting from 

 Chateauguay to Montreal any raft or rafts of firewood, which is or are his 

 or their property, but this shall not exempt any such proprietor from first 

 causing such raft or rafts of firewood to be measured and branded as by this 

 Act is directed; and in default of being so measured and branded, every such 

 proprietor shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten shillings current 

 money of this Province. 



Pilots Fees. 



7. And it being necessary to fix the hire or wages of Pilots licensed as 

 by this Act is directed. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

 that from the Qpening of the navigation until the first day of October, 

 annually, there shall be paid to the licensed Pilots in lieu of all wages, 

 provisions and ferriage for piloting from Chateauguay to Montreal the fol- 

 lowing hire or wages, that is to say : For every scow loaded in part or in 

 whole, thirty shillings, currency. For every raft of staves, timber or other 

 lumber consisting of two cribs, and not exceeding eighty feet in length, 

 twelve shillings and sixpence, currency. For a single crib of staves, tim- 

 ber or other lumber, if the proprietor shall require it to be piloted singly, 

 twelve shillings and sixpence, currency. For every raft of firewood, ten 

 shillings, currency. And from and after the first day of October, inclu- 

 sive, annually until the close of navigation there shall be allowed and paid 

 over and above the before mentioned rates an addition of one-fifth part. 



In Case of Accidents. 



8. And, whereas, accidents may happen to scows and rafts in their pas- 

 sage from Chateauguay to Montreal. Be it further enacted by the authority 

 aforesaid that it shall be the duty of the pilot having charge of any scow 

 or raft, which shall meet with an accident, to give every assistance in his 

 power, not only to clear the rapids from the impediments which such 



