TABLE OF RATES OF PILOTAGE. Every licensed pilot who navigates a ship or vessel from LUNDY ISLAND, or westward thereof, to KINGROAD. Every pilot who unmoors or carries a ship or vessel under one hundred tons register from any part of the River Avon, and moors her in Cumberland or Bathurst Basin, or who unmoors or carries such ship or vessel from either of those basins, and moors her in or proceeds with her down the said river, shall be entitled to the following: Every pilot who unmoors and carries a ship from Portishead, Kingroad, Hungroad, or Broad Pill, and moors her in Cumberland or Bathurst Basin; and who unmoors or carries a vessel froin either of those basins, and moors her in Portishead, Hungroad, Broad Pill, or Kingroad, or any other of such places, or proceeds with her on her voyage, shall be entitled to the following: 8. d. For each man employed on board, or for hauling or towing any) vessel, and mooring and unmooring, from Bathurst or Cumberland Basin to Hungroad, Pill, and Broad Pill, and from 3 3 either of those places to Cumberland or Bathurst Basin, the pilot shall receive and be entitled unto, per man Or from Bathurst or Cumberland Basin to Kingroad and) Portishead, or either of them, or from either of those places 3 9 to Cumberland or Bathurst Basin, he shall receive, per man And the pilot shall be entitled to, and shall receive for each towboat and yawl employed in towing or assisting, mooring, and unmooring any vessel from Portishead, Kingroad, Hungroad, or Broad Pill, into Cumberland or Bathurst Basin, and out of 60 Cumberland or Bathurst Basin to Portishead, Kingroad, Hungroad, or Broad Pill, the sums following, viz.— For a tow-boat For a yawl.... And he shall receive for every boat used in towing, unmooring, For every yawl. 3 0 2 6 And every man who shall be engaged, or be discharged at Hungroad or Pill, without being employed to assist in mooring or unmooring, shall be entitled to, for his fee or wages. And the pilot shall be entitled, for the boats not employed in so mooring and unmooring,-for a tow-boat 2 9 4 0 And for a yawl .......... 2 6 The pilot of all vessels above three hundred tons shall be allowed) for an assistant pilot, in the river pilotage, (such assistant 10 0 being a licensed pilot,) the sum of.... Such assistant not being a licensed pilot... 3 3 There shall be allowed for each horse used in towing any ship 6 0 1 0 It is ordained, constituted, and provided, that every licensed pilot shall attend to and obey the orders and directions of the haven-master, for the time being, as to the number of horses, men, and boats, to be employed in assisting or navigating any ship or vessel up or down the river; and in mooring or unmooring any ship or vessel, and that no pilot shall be entitled to charge or demand for any greater number of men, horses, or boats, than the haven-master, for the time being, shall deem right and proper; and that no pilot shall demand or apply for payment of any note for pilotage, until the same is approved by the haven-master, for the time being, and his approval testified by his signature thereto; and that every pilot who shall offend against this order, and also every pilot who shall conduct himself contemptuously, or give abuse or improper language to the haven-master, or to any person or persons employing him, shall forfeit and pay for each offence any sum not exceeding fire pounds, and shall, for the second offence, lose his licence, and be discharged from being a pilot. It is ordained, constituted, and provided, that the haven-master, for the time being, shall be paid by the pilot for examining the pilotage note of a ship or vessel: Under 100 tons registered burthen. 100 and under 200. s. d. 1 0 20 3 0 And that such sums shall be added to the pilotage note, and paid therewith by the master and commander, merchant, or owner of such ship or vessel All FOREIGN VESSELS coming to or going from the port of Bristol shall pay one-fourth part more of the Channel-pilotage than is hereinbefore directed to be paid, to raise a fund for the purpose of relieving decayed pilots and their families, and for assisting meritorious and deserving pilots, who, in the execution of their duty, may be unfortunate in the loss or stranding of their skiffs; such surplus-pilotage to be collected by an officer to be appointed by the mayor, aldermen, and common council, and the management of the fund to be under their direction. In case any ship or vessel shall be in DISTRESS, either in the outward or homeward-bound voyage, and any pilots or men shall run an imminent risk or hazard in going to the relief of such ship or vessel, the pilots or men so assisting shall have reasonable satisfaction for the assistance so given, according to such assistance and the risk and hazard run; and in case of a difference of opinion as to the amount of such satisfaction, the same to be ascertained by two of his Majesty's justices of the peace acting for the city and county of Bristol. If any licensed pilot shall proceed with any ship or vessel as far as Minehead, Combe, or Lundy Island, and be forced by stress of weather to return to Kingroad or Portishead, he shall be allowed one-third part of the Channel pilotage, according to the distance such vessel may have reached before she shall have put back. Each pilot's skiff shall be marked with the number appointed for her by the haven-master, in black paint on the three lower sails, such number to be at least four feet in length; the hull to be painted black, with a white streak under the gun-whale; to be also numbered on the bow, and the pilot's name on the stern; and to carry a flag constantly at the mast-head, with blue and white horizontal stripes, of the dimensions of four feet by five. All tow-boats and yawls to be likewise marked with their respective numbers, under a penalty not exceeding five pounds. Any pilot who shall pass by a vessel having a signal for a pilot flying, for the purpose of taking charge of any other vessel, or on any other account, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding five pounds. By order of the mayor, aldermen, and common council, ANCHORAGE AND MOORAGE AT THE LEGAL QUAYS. 47 Geo. III. sess. 2. c. 33. Rates of anchorage and moorage.-After the passing of this act, there shall be paid unto the mayor, &c. for every ship, bark, or other vessel anchoring or mooring at the lawful quays of the city and port of Bristol, the rates or duties according to the tonnage of such ship or vessel, set forth in the schedule hereunto annexed. § 1. No ship to be entered inwards till duties paid, &c.-No collector of his Majesty's customs in the port of Bristol, shall, on any account whatsoever, permit any ship to be entered inwards until the master shall have paid the duty hereby declared to be payable for such ship, and shall have produced a certificate, under the hand of the officer pointed under the authority of this act to receive the said rates, rifying the same to have been paid, upon pain of forfeiting to the use of any person who shall sue for the same the sum of twenty pounds, together with costs of suit; and which sum shall, within twelve calendar months after the offence committed, be recovered in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster, by action of debt. § 3. Penalty on masters of ships refusing to pay the rates.-If any master or owner of any ship shall at any time hereafter refuse to pay to the collector the rates hereby made payable, or any part thereof, or shall evade payment of the same, such person shall forfeit a sum equal to double the rates so evaded or refused; and such sum shall, within treize calendar months after the offence committed, be recovered from such master or owner, in any of his Majesty's courts of record at Westminster, by action of debt, &c. § 4. Nothing herein to lessen the rights of the quay-warden, waterbaff, or of the mayor of Bristol. § 5. An Act for the Appointment and Regulation of Pilots and Hoblers for the conducting of Ships and Vessels into and out of the Port or Harbour and River of Neath, in the County of Glamorgan; for placing Buoys upon the Bar of Neath, and the Removal of Obstructions in the said Port or Harbour and River; for regulating the Mooring of Ships and Vessels therein; and for the Regulation of Porters within the said Port or Harbour and River, and within the Town of Neath. Whereas the port or harbour and river of Neath, in the county of Glamorgan, by the means of the opening and working of several extensive collieries, &c. in its vicinity, is become a place of very considerable trade, and a great nursery for seamen; and whereas it would be useful and advantageous to the trade and commerce of the town, and would greatly tend to the safety of ships and vessels sailing or trading from and to the said port, and be of general benefit to his Majesty's subjects resorting with their ships or vessels thereto, if effectual powers were given for appointing and regulating of pilots and hoblers for conducting such ships or vessels between the said port or harbour and river, and the sea, and for a small distance out at sea, &c., and for appointing and regulating of porters within the said port or harbour and town; and for preventing persons not so appointed from acting as pilots or hoblers of any such ships or vessels, or porters, within the said port. Commissioners empowered to license pilots, &c.—The commissioners appointed by virtue of this act are authorized and empowered from time to time, by writing under their hands, to license and appoint such persons as they shall, upon examination touching their skill and abilities, approve and think properly qualified, to be pilots, hoblers, and helpers, for the conducting of ships and vessels into and out of the port or harbour and river of Neath, and upon any part thereof, and for a small distance out at sea, within or without the bay of Neath; and the persons so licensed shall, for the purposes of this act, be called river pilots and river hoblers; and shall also appoint such persons as they shall think proper to be porters within the said port or harbour and river of Neath; and if any person, without having such licence to act as a river pilot, shall take upon himself to conduct or pilot any ship or vessel into or out of the said port or harbour and river, or within the same, or in or without the said bay; or if any person, without having such licence to act as a river hobler, shall take upon himself to assist or help any ship or vessel into or out of the said port or harbour and river, or within the same, or in or without the said bay; or if any person, without having such licence to act as a porter, shall take upon himself to land or carry any goods or merchandize from or to any ship or vessel lying within the said port or harbour and river, every such person shall respectively forfeit, for every such offence, any sum not exceeding five pounds. § 1. |