PRINTER'S NO. 2111
No. 1707 Session of 1971
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. MELTON AND BARBER, NOVEMBER 11, 1971
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, NOVEMBER 29, 1971
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 29, 1803 (P.L.542), entitled "An act
2 to establish a Board of Wardens for the port of Philadelphia,
3 and for the regulation of pilots and pilotages, and for other
4 purposes therein mentioned," reducing certain age
5 requirements.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 18, act of March 29, 1803 (P. L. 542),
9 entitled "An act to establish a Board of Wardens for the port of
10 Philadelphia, and for the regulation of pilots and pilotages,
11 and for other purposes therein mentioned," amended July 10, 1969
12 (P.L.154), is amended to read:
13 Section 18. No license shall be granted to any person to act
14 as a pilot of the fourth class in the bay and river Delaware,
15 unless he has reached the age of [twenty-one] eighteen years,
16 and has served a regular apprenticeship of four years on board a
17 pilot-boat; nor shall any license of the third class be granted
18 to any person, unless he shall have served at least one year as
19 a fourth class pilot, and no person shall be eligible for a
20 license of the second class who has not served one year in the
1 fourth class and at least one year in the third class and no
2 person shall be eligible for a license of the first class who
3 has not served a total of at least four years in the second,
4 third and fourth classes, with at least one year of such service
5 having been served in the second class. During the last two
6 years of apprenticeship, apprentices shall make at least forty-
7 eight trips each year, up or down the Delaware, in vessels with
8 first or second class pilots; and it shall be the duty of every
9 pilot, who shall so bring up or take down an apprentice, to
10 report to the office of the Board of Commissioners of
11 Navigation, with such apprentice, at the end of the trip. The
12 name of every such apprentice, together with the name of the
13 vessel and her master, in which every such apprentice shall have
14 come up or gone down, shall be recorded by the Board of
15 Commissioners of Navigation in a book to be kept by them for
16 that purpose. This act to apply to apprentices whose indentures
17 are now recorded. All indentures of apprentices to pilots shall
18 be recorded in the office of the Board of Commissioners of
19 Navigation aforesaid; nor shall any license be granted until the
20 person applying shall have given bond, with one sufficient
21 surety, to the said president, in any sum not exceeding five
22 hundred dollars nor less than three hundred dollars, conditioned
23 for the true and faithful performance of the duties and services
24 required by this act, and that he shall not aid or assist in
25 defrauding the revenue of the United States, and that he will
26 deliver up the license, to him granted, when required by the
27 said Board of Commissioners of Navigation in pursuance of the
28 provisions of this act.
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