1938/1939 public local laws – Ch.617 Sec.5
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CHAPTER 617 AN ACT TO DEFINE THE BOUNDARIES OF BEAUFORT HARBOR, TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A HARBOR MASTER AND PILOTS, AND TO REGU- LATE PILOTAGE FEES. The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
The said port commission shall have authority to determine and fix the license fees to be paid by all pilots so commissioned by it, including the renewal fees for said licenses, and which fees shall be paid to and used by said port commission in partial defrayal of its expenses; and it shall have power and authority (and it is hereby declared to be its duty) to establish the rate or rates of pilotage in and over the said port district, and by appropriate action shall publish and promulgate such rates as may be declared. Said port commission shall also have jurisdiction to hear and determine any and all matters of dispute between any pilot and any master of a vessel, or between pilots themselves, respecting the pilotage of any vessel.