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the person licensed, or in case he is not connected with a boat approved by them; but any pilot suspended may at any time, on due notice, appeal to the commissioners for a rehearing; and the commissioners may confirm or reverse their previous decision;

4. To regulate the stationing of pilot-boats, for the purpose of receiving pilots from outwardbound vessels;

5. To amend existing regulations for pilots, and make and duly promulgate and enforce new rules or regulations, not inconsistent with the laws of this state or of the United States, which shall be binding and effectual upon all pilots licensed by them, and upon all parties employing such pilots;

6. To declare and enforce forfeitures of pilotage upon any mismanagement or neglect of duty by the pilots licensed by them; and to declare and collect fines and penalties, not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for each offense;

7. To prevent any of the pilots licensed by them from combining injuriously with each other, or with other persons, and to prevent any person licensed by them from acting as a pilot during his suspension or after his license may be revoked;

8. To establish and enforce all other needful rules and regulations for the conduct and government of the pilots licensed by them, and the par

ties employing them, in respect to such employment;

9. To receive and enforce accounts of all moneys collected for pilotage, by the pilots licensed by them;

10. To impose and collect from such pilots a sum not exceeding three per cent on the amount thereof, to defray the necessary expenses of the board;

11. To provide, out of any funds which may be obtained, rewards to encourage the prompt relief of disabled vessels, and the speedy report of the same, and also not only the energetic performance of duty, but benevolent and praiseworthy efforts to relieve vessels and passengers from distress;

12. To perform such further duties as are prescribed by article IX of this chapter, entitled Special regulations for the port of New York."

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324. Before any person can receive a license Examinahe must be examined, within one week after his candidates. application, by the commissioners and one or more of the licensed Sandy Hook pilots, in respect to his qualifications, and in particular upon the following points:

1. His experience and skill to act as pilot;

2. His knowledge of the sailing and management of a square-rigged vessel;

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3. His knowledge of the tides, soundings, the bearing and distance of the several shoals; rocks, bars, points and night lights in the navigation for which he applies for license;

4. His moral character;

5. His temperate habits.

It is the duty of pilots to attend and assist in the examinations whenever required by the commissioners; but in case of their failure to attend at any time, the examination may proceed in their absence.

§ 325. Before granting a license, the commissioners shall require each pilot to enter into recognizance to the people of this state, with two sureties, to be approved by the commissioners, in a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, conditioned that the pilot shall diligently and faithfully perform his duties as pilot, and observe the regulations and decisions of the commissioners, which recognizance may be prosecuted in the name of the people of the State of New York, whenever a majority so direct. Any amount collected shall be paid to the commissioners, who may direct the same to be applied to the purposes mentioned in subdivision 11, of section 322.

§ 326. The fees for pilotage, by the Sandy Hook pilots, are as follows:

1. For merchant vessels inward bound, if drawing less than fourteen feet of water, two dollars and forty-four cents per foot;

If drawing fourteen and less than eighteen feet, three dollars and six cents per foot;

If drawing eighteen and less than twenty-one feet, three dollars and seventy cents per foot;

If drawing twenty-one feet and upwards, four dollars and thirty cents per foot;

If the masters or owners of any vessel request the pilot to moor the same at any place within Sandy Hook, and not to take it to the wharf or harbor of New York, or the vessel be detained at quarantine, the same pilotage shall be allowed, and the pilot entitled to his discharge;

2. For merchant vessels outward bound, if drawing less than fourteen feet, one dollar and eighty cents per foot;

If drawing fourteen and less than eighteen feet, two dollars and twelve cents per foot;

If drawing eighteen and less than twenty-one feet, two dollars and seventy-five cents per foot;

If drawing twenty-one feet and upwards, three dollars and twenty cents per foot;

3. For national armed vessels of the United States or of other nations, five dollars per foot;

4. For moving vessels within the harbor of New York, as follows:

For moving from the North to the East river, or from the East to the North river, if a seventy-four gun ship, twenty dollars; if a sloop of war, ten dollars; if a merchant vessel, five dollars, except if such merchant vessel arrived from sea, or is ready for and bound to sea on the day such services for moving are rendered, a separate fee shall not be charged for the moving;

For moving any vessel from the quarantine to the city of New York, one-quarter of the sum that would be due for the inward pilotage of such vessel;

For hauling any vessel from the river to a wharf or from a wharf into the river, three dollars, except on the day of arrival or departure of such vessels;

5. When any vessel bound to the port of New York is boarded at such distance to the southward or eastward of Sandy Hook lighthouse as that that lighthouse could not be seen from its deck in the daytime and in fair weather, the addition of one-fourth to the rates of pilotage shall be allowed to the pilot;

6. Between the first day of November and the first day of April, inclusive, four dollars shall be added to the full pilotage of every vessel coming into or going out of the port of New York;

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