Account of the Draught of Water of fuch Ship or Veffel, fhall for LVII. And, in order to prevent or fettle Controverfies concerning the Draught of Water of Ships and Veffels which fhall be from Time to Time in the River of Thames (not having British Registers),' be it enacted, That whenever any Difference about the Draught of Water of any Ship or Veffel fhall arife between the Mafter or other Perfon having the Command of any fuch Ship or Vef fel; and any Person who fhall have piloted the fame into the faid River, or who fhall be required to pilot the fame therefrom, purfuant to the Directions of this Act, the faid Corporation of Trinity Houfe, or fome proper Officer or Perfon appointed by them, fhall admeasure the Draught of Water of fuch Ship or Veffel, and fhall fettle and determine the fame between the Parties, upon Application made by either of them to the faid Corporation within Twelve Hours after fuch Ship or Veffel fhall have arrived at her Moorings in the River, or before the Cargo thereof shall be begun to be unladen, or before fuch Ship or Veffel fhall quit her Moorings on any outward Voyage; for which Admeasurement the Officer or Perfon making the fame fhall be paid O..e Guinea, if the Ship or Veffel fhall be below or in the Pool, and Half a Guinea if above the Pool, by the Perfon requiring fuch Admeasurement, or making Application for the fame to the faid Corporation. LVIII. And be it further enacted, That every Mafter or other Perfon having the Command for the Time being of any Ship or Veffel required to be piloted according to the Directions of this Act, fhall, on coming into the Port of London, and in making the Entry or Report of his Ship or Veffel Hawards, infert or caufe to be inferted in fuch Entry or Report the Name of the Pilot or Pilots employed or engaged by him, or by the Owner of fuch Ship or Veffel to pilot the fame into the faid Port of London, and which Insertion fhall be made (without Fee or Reward) by the proper Officer of the Cuftoms, in the faid Entry or Report, who fhall alfo report the fame to the Corporation of the Trinity Houfe monthly; and alfo that the Principal Searcher or Clearing Officer of the Cuftoms at Gravesend fhall demand and take the Name or Names of the Pilot or Pilots of all Ships or Veffels clearing outwards from the Port of London, and fhall tranfmit monthly Lifts of fuch Names to the faid Corporation of the Trinity Houfe, on pain of forfeiting a Sum not exceeding Five Pounds nor lefs than Forty Shillings, to be paid by every Perfon who fhall neglect to comply with the foregoing Regulations refpectively. LIX. And be it further enacted, That Lifts of the Chriftian and Surnames, Ages, and Places of Refidence, of all Pilots in England, fhall, with the Dates of their Appointments, on or before the Thirtyfirit Day of December One thoufand eight hundred and eight, be tranfmitted to the Corporation of Trinity Houfe of Deptford Strond, at at their Court Houfe in London, diftinguishing the Limits within which fuch Pilots are appointed to act refpectively, and thenceforward from Time to Time as each Appointment of a Pilot fhall take place; and alfo Duplicates of fuch Lifts to the Commiffioners of the Cuftoms in England, annexing to the Lifts to be tranfmitted to the Trinity Houfe the Rates of Pilotage, and alfo flating the Rules and Regulations made and established in relation to fuch Pilots, in cafe fuch Rules and Regulations fhall have been made by any other Authority than by Act of Parliament, or by the faid Corporation of Trinity Houfe of Deptford Strond, and the fame, when fo completed, fhall be tranfmitted as aforefaid by the refpective Bodies Politick and Corporate, and other Perfons authorized to appoint Pilots in any. of the Ports, Harbours, or Rivers, or on any of the Coafts of England, by whom fuch Pilots fhall have been appointed refpectively; and the faid Politick Bodies and Corporate, and other Perfons authorized to appoint Pilots as aforefaid, fhall and they are hereby required to tranfmit to the faid Corporation of Trinity Houfe, at their faid Court Houfe in London, annually on the Thirty-first Day of December, or within One Calendar Month afterwards, a Lift corrected up to the faid Thirty-firft Day of December annually, of the Names and Refidence of the Pilots within their feveral Jurifdictions, and ftating fuch Alterations as may have been made (if any) in the Rules and Regulations for governing Pilots within the refpective Districts, LX. And whereas by Two Acts paffed in the Forty-fifth and Forty-fixth Years of His prefent Majefty, for the more effectual Performance of Quarantine, Pilots are required, on going on board Ships arriving from Foreign Parts, in certain Cafes to give Information to the Commanders thereof refpecting Proclamations and • Orders in Council relative to the Performance of Quarantine, which renders it neceflary that Notice of fuch Proclamations and Orders, which may have been iffued fubfequent to the Departure from England of fuch Ships, fhould be previously communicated to all Pilots throughout England;' be it further enacted, That the faid Commiffioners of the Customs fhall, within One Month, from the Thirtyfirst Day of December One thoufand eight hundred and eight, tranf mit to the principal Officers of the Revenue under their Management at the feveral Ports in England, the Names and Places of Refidence of fuch Pilots in the Lifts fo tranfmitted to them as fhall refide within the Limits of each Port refpectively, and fo from thenceforward the Name of each Pilot of whofe Nomination they fhall receive Notice from the proper Authority, in order that the faid principal Officers at the feveral Ports may be enabled to communicate to every Pilot within the Limits of the Ports respectively all Proclamations or Orders in Council refpecting the Performance of Quarantine by Ships arriving from infected Places, which the faid Officers are hereby required to do. LXI. And be it further enacted, That all the Provifions, Claufes, Penalties, and Forfeitures, contained in an A&t paffed in the Eighth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, or any other Act or Acts made and in force for the Prefervation of Beacons and Sea Marks, fhall extend and be conftrued to extend to all Veffels duly appointed to exhibit Lights therein for the Prefervation of Ships and Veffels at Sea, and to all Perfons removing, injuring, or deftroying fuch Z4 Veffels 45 G. 3. c. 10. 46 G. 3. c. 98. Commiffioners of Cuttoms thall transmit to their Officers at the feveral Ports in Names and England the Refidence of the Pilots who fhall refide within the Limits of each Port. Provifions of 8 Eliz. c. 13. &c. for Prefervation of Beacons exappointed to exhibit Lights, &c. tended to Veffels Penalty for running foul, &c. of fuch Veffels, or any Buoy or Beacon. 89 G. 3. c. lxix. Penalty on Pilots for not obeying the Orders of the Dock Mafter of the Weft India Dock Company, sol. to 201., &c. Lift of Veffels employed for Pilotage, with the Number of Hands, fhall be annually tranfmitted to the Receiver of Veffels or Lights; which Offences may be laid and tried in any County in England. LXII. And be it further enacted, That every Person who shall ride by, make faft to, or remove, or wilfully or negligently run down, or run foul of any Veffel appointed or placed to exhibit Lights, or any Buoy or Beacon belonging to the faid Corporation of the Trinity Houfe of Deptford Strond, or belonging to or placed by any other Corporation having lawful Authority to place the fame, fhall forfeit for every fuch Offence any Sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds nor lefs than Ten Pounds, together with the Expence of replacing or making good any Damage occafioned by fuch Mifconduct. LXIII. And whereas by an A&t paffed in the Thirty-ninth Year of the Reign of His prefent Majefty, intituled, An Act for rendering more commodious and for better regulating the Port of London, the Dock Mafter or Dock Mafters appointed by the Weft India Dock Company, under and by virtue of the faid Act, have full Power and Authority to direct the mooring, unmooring, moving or removing of all Ships and other Veffels, Lighters, and Craft, as fhall be within the Diftance of Two hundred Yards from any Entrance out of the faid River there into the Works of the faid Company, as to the Time or Times, and Manner of their Entrance into, lying in, or going out of or from the fame: And whereas the Powers given to the faid Dock Mafter or Dock Masters, under and by virtue of the faid recited Act, have not been found sufficient to enable him and them to enforce Obedience to his and their Orders and Directions, to Pilots having the Charge or Direction of navigating Ships and Veffels within the aforefaid Diftance of Two hundred Yards of the refpective Entrances into the faid Docks from the River Thames;' be it therefore enacted, That from and after the paffing of this Act, if any Pilot or Pilots having the Charge or Direction of navigating any Ship or Veffel within the aforefaid Diftance of Two hundred Yards from the refpective Entrances into the faid Docks from the River Thames, and either intended to go into, or having recently come out of the Docks, Bafons, or other Works of the faid Company, fhall neglect or refufe to obey fuch Orders or Directions as fhall or may from Time to Time be given to fuch Pilot or Pilots by the faid Dock Mafter or Dock Mafters under and by virtue of, and agreeably to the Powers vested in him and them by the faid recited Act, touching or relating to the mooring, unmooring, moving, or removing of fuch Ships or Veffels fo being under the Charge or Direction of fuch Pilot or Pilots as aforefaid, then and in every fuch Cafe every Pilot fo offending fhall forfeit and pay a Sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds and not lefs than Twenty Pounds; and every fuch Pilot fhall be liable to be difmiffed from being a Pilot, or fufpended from acting as fuch, at the Difcretion of the Corporation, or other Authority by whom fuch ́ Pilot was licenfed. LXIV. And be it further enacted, That the Corporation of the Trinity Houfe of Deptford Strond, and the Court of Loadmanage of the Cinque Ports, and all other Corporations for managing or directing Pilots in any Part of England, under the Authority of any A&t of Parliament or Charter, fliall annually, within One Month after the First Day of January in every Year, tranfmit to the Office of the Receiver of the Sixpenny Duty in the Port of London, a Lift of of all the Veffels, of every Defcription, employed by them, or by the 5d. Duty in Perfons under their Authority, for the Purpofes of Pilotage, with the Port of the Number of Men and Boys belonging to or ferving in any fuch London. Veffel. LXV. And be it further enacted, That all Fines, Penalties, or Forfeitures by this Act impofed or to be impofed by any Bye Law made under the Authority thereof, the Manner of levying whereof is not herein directed, and which fhall not exceed Twenty Pounds, or in refpect of which any Sum lefs than Twenty Pounds may be awarded at the Discretion of any Juftice hearing the Offence, may be levied and recovered within Six Calendar Months after the Offence or Offences committed, or within fuch other Time as is hereinafter in that Behalf directed, before any Juftice or Juftices of the Peace for the County, City, Divifion, or Place where the Offence fhall be com mitted, or if committed by any Pilot, before any Juftice of the Peace or Magiftrate of the City, Town, or Port to which fuch Pilot shall belong; or if committed by any Owner or Master of any Shin, by any Juftice of the Peace or Magiftrate of the County, City, Town, or Port at which fuch Owner or Mafter fhall refide, or to which the Ship of fuch Owner or Master shall belong; or if committed by any Pilot of the Trinity Houfe of Depiford Strond, or the Cinque Ports, or by any other Perfon on any Part of the Sea from Folkftone to the Mouth of the River Thames, or up the River Thames or Medway, then by any Justice of the Peace of the Counties of Kent, Surry, Effex, or Middlefex, or by any Magiftrate of the City of London; and fuch Juftice and Juftices is and are hereby empowered and required, upon Complaint to him or them made, to grant a Warrant to bring before him or them fuch Offender or Offenders at the Time or Place in fuch Warrant fpecified; and if on Conviction of the Of fender or Offenders refpectively, or on his, her, or their Confeffion, or on the Evidence of any One or more credible Witness or Witneffes upon Oath (which Oath fuch Juftice or Juftices is and are hereby empowered to adminifter) fuch Fine, Penalty, or Forfeiture fhall not be forthwith paid, it fhall and may be lawful to and for fuch Juftice or Juftices to commit every fuch Offender to the common Gaol or House of Correction for the County, City, or Place where the Of fender fhall be committed, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize, for any Time not exceeding Six Calendar Months nor lefs than Twenty-one Days, until fuch Fine, Penalty, or Forfeiture, and all reafonable Charges attending the Recovery thereof, fhall be fooner paid: Provided always, That no Juftice or Magiftrate shall in any Cafe award any Sum exceeding Twenty Pounds. Recovery of Penalties not exceeding 201, 201. LXVI. And be it further enacted, That all Fines, Penalties, or Recovery of Forfeitures exceeding the Sum of Twenty Pounds by this Act im- Penalties above pofed, for any Offence or Offences committed againft this Act, or in which any greater Sum may be awarded than Twenty Pounds, and in which the Party profecuting fuch Offence fhall proceed for any greater Sum than Twenty Pounds, fhall and may be recovered by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or Information, in any of His Majefty's Courts of Record at Wefiminfler, wherein no Elloign, Protection, Wager of Law, or any more than One Imparlance shall be allowed, within Twelve Calendar Months next after the Offence or Offences fhall be committed, or within fuch other Time as is hereinafter in that Behalf directed: Provided always, that in cafe the faid refpective Periods Exemption for Jurifdiction of Juftice of any County whither an Offender fhall efcape, or where his Goods fhall be, may indorfe the original Warrant, which the Peace Officers fhall authorize to execute it, &c. Periods of Six Calendar Months and Twelve Calendar Months, or either of them, within which Fines, Penalties, or Forfeitures are to be fued for as aforefaid, fhall in any Cafe or Cafes elapfe and run out before any Profecution hereby authorized or directed shall have been commenced for the Recovery of fuch Fines, Penalties, or Forfeitures; and if it fhall in Manner hereinafter mentioned be made to appear, as foon after as the Circumftances of the Cafe shall reasonably admit, that the Commencement of the Profecution has been delayed by reafon of the Abfence of any Party or Parties, whether offending or complaining, or by the Abfence of any neceffary Witnefs or Wit neffes; then upon fuch Circumftances being ftated by Affidavit, in Writing, made before any Judge of any of His Majefty's Courts of Record at Westminster, it fhall thereupon be lawful for any fuch Judge or Judges to order or authorize the Commencement of fuch Profecution, within fuch further Time as fuch Judge fhall think fit to limit in that Behalf, and in fuch Cafe the Profecution or Profecutions fo ordered or authorized, fhall and may be commenced and profecuted within the Time or refpective Times fo limited, in like Manner and with the like Effect, in all Refpects, as if fuch Profecutions had been commenced and profecuted within the faid respective Periods of Six Months and Twelve Months hereby limited: Provided always, that nothing herein contained fhall extend to affect or impede the Jurifdiction of the Court of Loadmanage, as far as refpects the Pilots appointed under the Authority of the faid Court; and provided alfo, that nothing in this Act contained fhall extend or be conftrued to extend to affect or impair the Jurifdiction of the High Court of Admiralty. any LXVII. And be it further enacted, That in cafe any Perfon against whom a Warrant fhall be iffued by any Juftice or Juftices, before or after Conviction for any Offence against this Act, fhall efcape, go into, or refide, or be in any other County, Riding, Divifion, City, Liberty, Town, or Place, not of the Jurifdiction of fuch Juftice or Juftices granting fuch Warrant or Warrants; or if the Goods and Chattels of any Öffender convicted of any Offence in pursuance of this Act, fhall be in any County, Riding, Divifion, City, Liberty, Town, or Place, other than where the faid Party was convicted, or Warrant of Diftrefs granted, it fhall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace of the County, Riding, Divifion, City, Liberty, Town, or Place into which fuch Perfon fhall efcape, either before or after Conviction, or where his Goods and Chattels fhall be after fuch Conviction, and they and every of them are hereby required, upon Proof made upon Oath of the Hand-writing of any Juftice or Juftices granting fuch Warrant or Warrants, to indorfe his or their Name or Names on fuch Warrant; and the fame, when fo delivered, shall be fufficient Authority to all Peace Officers to execute fuch Warrant in fuch other County, Riding, Divifion, City, Town, or Place out of the Jurifdiction of the Justice or Juftices granting the faid Warrant; and any Juftice or Juftices respectively, on the Offender or Offenders being apprehended and brought before him or them within their refpective Jurifdictions, may proceed to hear and determine the Complaint, in the fame Manner as if it had originally arifen within his or their refpective Jurifdictions, and may direct the Offender or Offenders to be carried to the Juftice or Juftices who |