Sub-Commis. sioners and Pilots (Trinity House.)

Publication of Notice of Licences of

Pilots by the Trinity House of Pilots.

Bonds to be given.

Liability limited.

Continuance and Renewal of Licences.

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Rochester Bridge respectively, and also the Seas and Channels leading thereto or therefrom as far as Ordfordness to the North and Dungeness to the South; so nevertheless, that no Pilot shall be hereafter licensed to conduct Ships both above and below Gravesend :

(2.) "The English Channel District," comprising the Seas between Dungeness and the Isle of Wight:

(3.) "The Trinity House Outport Districts," comprising any Pilotage District for the Appointment of Pilots within which no particular Provision is made by any Act of Parliament or Charter.

CCCLXXI. Subject to any Alteration to be made by the Trinity House, the Names of all Pilots licensed by the Trinity House shall be published in manner following; (that is to say,)

(1.) The Trinity House shall at their House in London fix up a Notice specifying the Name and usual Place of Abode of every Pilot so licensed, and the Limits within. which he is licensed to act :

(2.) The Trinity House shall transmit a Copy of such Notice to the Commissioners of Customs in London, and to the principal Officers of Customs resident at all Ports within the Limits for which such Pilot is licensed; and such Notice shall be posted up by the Commissioners at the Custom House in London, and by such Officers at the Custom Houses of the Ports at which they are respectively resident.

CCCLXXII. Subject to any Alteration to be made by the Trinity House, every Trinity House Pilot on his Appointment shall execute a Bond for One hundred Pounds conditioned for the due Observance on his Part of the Regulations and Byelaws of the Trinity House, such Bond to be free from Stamp Duty, and from any other Charge except the actual Expense for preparing the same.

CCCLXXIII. No qualified Pilot who has executed such Bond as is hereinbefore mentioned shall be liable for Neglect or Want of Skill beyond its Penalty and the Amount of Pilotage payable to him in respect of the Voyage on which he is engaged.

CCCLXXIV. Subject to any Alteration to be made by the Trinity House, no Licence granted by them shall continue in force beyond the Thirty-first Day of January next ensuing the

Date

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Date of such Licence, but the same may, upon the Application of the Pilot holding such Licence, be renewed on such Thirty-first Day of January in every Year, or any subsequent Day, by Indorsement under the Hand of the Secretary of the Trinity House, or such other Person as may be appointed by them for that Purpose.

Sub-Commis

sioners and Pilots (Trinity House.)

CCCLXXV. The Trinity House shall have Power to revoke Power to reor suspend the Licence of any Pilot appointed by them, in voke and sussuch Manner and at such Time as they think fit.

Compulsory Pilotage (Trinity House.)

pend Licences.

Compulsory Pilotage (Trinity

House.)

Masters of

Pilots, or act

CCCLXXVI. Subject to any Alteration to be made by the Trinity House and to the Exemptions herein-after contained, the Pilotage Districts of the Trinity House within which the Penalty on Employment of Pilots is compulsory are the London District, Ships employand the Trinity House Outport Districts, as herein-before ing unlicensed defined; and the Master of every Ship navigating within any ing as Pilot. Part of such District or Districts, who, after a qualified Pilot has offered to take charge of such Ship or has made a Signal for that Purpose, either himself pilots such Ship without possessing a Certificate enabling him so to do, or employs or continues to employ an unqualified Person to pilot her, shall for every such Offence, in addition to the Penalty herein-before specified, if the Trinity House certify in Writing under their Common Seal that the Prosecutor is to be at liberty to proceed for the Recovery of such additional Penalty, incur an additional penalty not exceeding Five Pounds for every Fifty Tons Burden of such Ship.

constant Sup

CCCLXXVII. Subject to any Alteration to be made by the Trinity House Trinity House, a sufficient Number of qualified Pilots shall to make Regu always be ready to take charge of Ships coming from the lations for a Westward past Dungeness; and the Trinity House shall, by ply of qualified Byelaw to be made in the same Manner as other Byelaws Dungeness. made under the Powers herein contained, make such Regulations with respect to the Pilots under their Control as may be necessary in order to provide for an unintermitted Supply of qualified Pilots for such Ships, and to insure their constant Attendance upon and due Performance of their Duty both by Night and Day, whether by cruizing between the South Foreland and Dungeness, or by going off from Shore upon Signals made for the Purpose, or by both of such Means, or by any other Means, and whether in rotation or otherwise, as the Trinity House think fit.

CCCLXXVIII. Subject to any Alteration to be made by the Ship coming Trinity House, every Master of any Ship coming from the past Dunge

Westward,

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for Pilot.

Exemptions

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Westward, and bound to any Place in the Rivers Thames and Medway, (unless she has a qualified Pilot on board or is exempted from compulsory Pilotage,) shall, on the Arrival of such Ship off Dungeness, and thenceforth until she has passed the South Buoy of the Brake, or a line to be drawn from Sandown Castle to the said Buoy, or until a qualified Pilot has come on board, display and keep flying the usual Signal for a Pilot; and if any qualified Pilot is within Hail, or is approaching and within Half a Mile, and has the proper distinguishing Flag flying in his Boat, such Master shall, by heaving-to in proper Time or shortening Sail, or by any practicable Means consistent with the Safety of his Ship, facilitate such Pilot getting on board, and shall give the Charge of piloting his Ship to such Pilot; or if there are Two or more of such Pilots offering at the same Time, to such One of them as may, according to the Regulations for the Time being in force, be entitled or required to take such Charge; and if any such Master fails to display or keep flying the usual Signal for a Pilot in manner herein-before required, or to facilitate any such qualified Pilot as aforesaid getting on board as herein-before required, or to give the Charge of piloting his Ship to such Pilot as hereinbefore mentioned in that Behalf, he shall incur a Penalty not exceeding double the Sum which might have been demanded for the Pilotage of his Ship, such Penalty to be paid to the Trinity House, and to be carried to the Account of the Trinity House Pilot Fund.

CCCLXXIX. The following Ships, when not carrying Pasfrom compul. sengers, shall be exempted from compulsory Pilotage in the sory Pilotage. London District, and in the Trinity House Outport Districts; (that is to say,)

(1.) Ships employed in the Coasting Trade of the United Kingdom:

(2.) Ships of not more than Sixty Tons Burden:

(3.) Ships trading to Boulogne or to any Place in Europe North of Boulogne:

(4.) Ships from Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man, which are wholly laden with Stone being the Produce of those Islands:

(5.) Ships navigating within the Limits of the Port to which they belong:

(6.) Ships passing through the Limits of any Pilotage District on their Voyages between Two Places both situate out of such Limits, and not being bound to any Place within such Limits nor anchoring therein.

Rates

CCCLXXX. Subject to any Alteration to be made by the Rates of Trinity House, there shall continue to be paid to all Trinity Pilotage. House Pilots, in respect of their Pilotage Services, such Dues as are immediately before the Time when this Act comes into operation payable to them in respect of such Services.

from Foreign

CCCLXXXI. Subject to any Alteration to be made by the Payment of Trinity Horse, and notwithstanding anything herein-before Pilotage Due contained, there shall be paid in respect of all Foreign Ships Ships trading trading to and from the Port of London, and not exempted from to and from Pilotage, the following Pilotage Dues; that is to say, as to the Port of Ships Inwards, the full Amount of Dues for the Distance London. piloted, and as to Ships Outwards, the full Amount of Dues for the Distance required by Law; and Payment of Such Pilotage Dues shall be made to the Collector of Customs in the Port of London by some One or more of the following Persons, that is to say, the Master or other Person having the Charge of such Ship, or the Consignees or Agents thereof who have paid or made themselves liable to pay any other Charge for such Ship in the said Port of London; and such Pilotage may be recovered in the same Manner as other Pilotage Dues are hereinbefore declared to be recoverable.

given.

CCCLXXXII. Subject to any Alteration to be made by the Certificate of Trinity House, the said Collector of Customs shall, on receiv- Payment of ing any Pilotage Dues in respect of Foreign Ships, give to the Pilotage to be Person paying the same a Receipt in Writing; and no Officer of Customs in the Port of London shall grant a Clearance or Transire for any such Foreign Ship as aforesaid without the Production of such Receipt; and if any such Ship attempts to go to Sea without such Clearance or Transire, any such Officer may detain her until the said Receipt is produced.

CCCLXXXIII. Subject to any Alteration to be made by the Application of such Monies Trinity House, the said Collector shall pay over to the Trinity by Trinity House the Pilotage Dues received by him in respect of any House. Foreign Ship; and the Trinity House shall apply the same in manner following:

In the first place, in paying to any Pilot who may bring sufficient Proof of his having had the Charge of such Ship such Dues as would have been payable to him for such Pilotage Service if the Ship had been a British Ship, after deducting therefrom the Poundage due to the Trinity

House:

In the second place, in paying to any unlicensed Person who may bring sufficient Proof of his having, in the Absence

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of a licensed Pilot, had the Charge of such Ship, such Amount as the Trinity House may think proper, not exceeding the Amount which would under similar Circumstances have been payable to a licensed Pilot, after deducting Poundage:

And, lastly, shall pay over to the Trinity House Pilots Fund the Residue, together with all Poundage deducted as aforesaid.

CCCLXXXIV. Whenever any Difference arises between the Master and the qualified Pilot of any Ship trading to or from the Port of London as to her Draught of Water, the Trinity House shall upon Application by either Party, made, in case of a Ship Inward-bound, within Twelve Hours after her Arrival or at some Time before she begins to discharge her Cargo, and in the Case of a Ship Outward-bound before she quits her Moorings, appoint some proper Officer who shall measure the Ship, and settle the Difference accordingly: And there shall be paid to the Officer measuring such Ship, by the Party against whom he decides, the following Sums; (that is to say,) One Guinea if the Ship be below and Half a Guinea if the Ship be above the Entrance of the London Docks at Wapping.

Pilot Fund (Trinity House.)

CCCLXXXV. Subject to any Alteration to be made by the Trinity House, there shall continue to be paid to them, and carried over to the Trinity House Pilot Fund, the Sums of Money following; (that is to say,)

(1.) A Poundage of Sixpence in the Pound upon the Pilotage Earnings of all Pilots licensed by the Trinity

House:

(2.) A Sum of Three Pounds Three Shillings to be paid on the First Day of January in every Year by every Person licensed by the Trinity House to act as Pilot in any District not under the Superintendence of Sub-Commissioners, or in any Part of such District:

And any qualified Pilot giving a false Account of his Earnings, or making default in Payment of any Sum due from him under this Section, shall forfeit double the Amount payable, and shall further be liable, at the Discretion of the Trinity House, to Suspension or Dismissal.

CCCLXXXVI. Subject to any prior Charges that may be subsisting thereon by virtue of any Act or Acts of Parliament

or