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Rh Command thereof, unless some other duly qualified Pilot shall come on board, and shall take the Charge and Conduct of such Ship or Vessel for the Residue of the Pilotage to be performed every such Pilot shall forfeit for every such Offence all Pay or Reward to which he might be entitled for having conducted or piloted such Ship or Vessel to Standgate Creek, and shall also be subject to such other Penalty or Punishment as by virtue of any of the Provisions of this Act, or of the Rules and Regulations to be established in pursuance thereof, any Pilots shall be liable to for quitting a ship or Vessel before she shall arrive at here place of Destination.

XLIV. And be it further enacted, That a particular Description of the Person of every Pilot shall be written in or upon, or indorsed on the back of his Licence and every Captain or Master, or other Person having the Command of a Ship or Vessel on receiving a Pilot on board, shall inspect his Licence; and if he shall have Reason to think that such Pilot is not the Person to whom the Licence was granted, such Captain or Master, or other Person having the Command of such Ship or Vessel, is hereby required forthwith to transmit a Copy of such Licence to the Corporation or Persons by whom such Licence shall have been granted, stating the Date thereof, together with such Account and Description of the Person producing such Licence or Warrant, as may lead to the Discovery of the Offender.

XLVI. And be it further enacted, That no Person shall take Charge of any Vessel, or in any Manner act as a Pilot, or receive any Compensation for acting as a Pilot, unless he shall be authorized thereto by some lawful Licence, nor until such Licence shall have been registered by the principal Officers of the Custom House of the place at or nearest to the such Pilot shall reside (which Officers are hereby required to register the same without Fee or Reward), nor without having his Licence at the Time of his acting in his Personal Custody, ready to be produced, and which he shall actually produce to the Master of any Ship or Vessel, or other person who shall be desirous of employing him as a Pilot; nor shall any Person, although duty, licensed to act as a Pilot, act in that Capacity out of or beyond the Limits expressed in his Licence, or beyond the Extent of his Qualifications therein expressed, unless in the Cases in this Act specified, of Pilots of a lower Class acting in the Absence of Pilots of higher Classes; on Pain of forfeiting a Sum not exceeding Thirty Pounds," or less than Ten Pounds, for the First Offence, and for any Second. or subsequent Offence, any Sum not exceeding Fifty Pounds, nor less than Thirty Pounds.

XLVII. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, and also for the said Society of Fellowship of Pilots of Dover, Deal, and the Isle of Thanet, and also for all other Corporate Bodies or other Persons having lawful Authority to appoint Pilots within the Limits of their respective Jurisdictions, to licence Vessels of such Size and Description as shall appear to them to be proper for the Purpose of having Pilots constantly in Attendance in such Vessels at Sea, and for the better Support of such Pilot Vessels, it shall be lawful for any Number of Pilots licensed by virtue of this Act, or otherwise lawfully licensed, with the Consent of the said Corporate Bodies, or Persons by whom respectively such Pilots have been or shall be appointed as aforesaid, to constitute a Joint Stock Company or Companies, for the providing and maintaining of such Pilot Vessels; which Companies, and the said: Vessels, shall at all Times be subject to such Rules and Regulations as shall from time to time be sanctioned and approved in that Behalf by the said Corporate Bodies, or Persons by whom respectively such Pilots shall respectively have been licenced.

XLIX. And be it further enacted, That every Pilot Boat or Vessel, or other Boat or Vessel in the Pilot Service of any Corporation or Society established by Law in relation to Pilotage, or of any Persons authorized to act as a Pilot by such Corporation or Society, shall at all Times, and on every Station, be fitted with Black Sides, and have the upper Strake next the Gunwale painted White, and shall, while afloat, carry a Vane at the Mast Head, or else a Flag on a Sprit or Staff, or in some other equally conspicuous Situation; which Vane or Flag shall be of large Dimensions, proportioned to the size of the Boat or Vessel carrying the same, and shall be Half Red and Half White, in horizontal Stripes of which the uppermost shall be White; and the same shall at all Times be kept and preserved in a clean and distinct Condition, so as to be easily discerned at a proper and sufficient Distance; and every such Boat or Vessel shall also have the Name of the principal Pilot thereof for the Time being, painted in broad White Letters, of Three Inches in Length, on a Black Ground on her Stern, and on each Bow such Number as shall be expressed in the Licence of such principal Pilot; which Name and Numbers shall not be hid or concealed by any Person, at any Time, on Pain of forfeiting the sum of Twenty Pounds for such Omission or Evasion, to be paid by such principal Pilot, who shall at all Times be answerable for the due Observance of the Matters aforesaid, by every person on board such Boat or Vessel; and