PORT, CONSULAR, CUSTOMS, PILOTAGE, AND HARBOUR REGULATIONS, &c. 371
II.-Pilots: individuals eligible.-The subjects, citizens, or protégés of Treaty Powers shall, equally with natives of China, and without distinction of nationality, be eligible for appointment, when vacancies occur, by the Board of Appointment subject to the General Regulations now issued, and the Bye-laws to be under them enforced at the several Ports respectively.
III.-Board of Appointment: how to be constructed.-The Board of Appointment shall consist of the Harbour Master as President, the (or a) Senior Pilot, and two persons whose names shall be drawn by lot, by the Harbour Master, from a list prepared and published by the Harbour Master in consultation with the Consuls and Chambers of Commerce.
IV.-Vacancies: how to be filled up.-1.-Whenever there may be a vacancy among the Pilots, it shall be duly notified in the local prints; and eight days afterwards the Board of Appointment shall proceed to fill it up by a competitive examination.
2.-The Board may refuse to admit to the examination any one who, baving once been a Licensed Pilot, has had his Licence withdrawn, and also any candidate who is unable to produce Consular certifications as to character, &c.
3. The examination shall be public and gratuitous, and the vacancies shall be given to the most competent among the candidates without distinction of nationality, provided always the competency of the first on the list be not relative but absolute.
4. The Consul concerned may in person, or by deputy, be present and take part in the examination of candidates.
5. The majority of the votes of the Members of the Board shall decide the admission of candidates for Pilot Licences, each Member having one vote in the ballot; but in the absence of the Consul concerned, the Harbour Haster shall have a casting vote.
V.-Pilots' Licence: by whom to be issued.-1.-Pilots' Licences shall be issued by the Commissioner of Customs in the name and on behalf of the Chinese Govern- ment. Licences issued to Pilots not being natives of China shall subsequently be vised and registered at the Consulate concerned.
2.--On the first day of July each year, every Pilot shall pay the sum of Ten Haikwan Taels for the renewal of his Licence.
3.-Every Licensed Pilot shall be given a printed copy of the General Regula- tions and Local Rules, and shall produce the same, as well as his Licence, when required.
VI.-Apprentice Pilots: who to be taken.-1.-It shall be allowable for each Licensed Pilot to take an Apprentice, for whom he shall be responsible. On the application of Pilots, the Harbour Master will supply Apprentices with special certificates.
2.-When the circumstances of the Port appear to demand it, the Harbour Master may authorise Apprentices to act, temporarily and within certain limits, as Pilots; provided they have received certificates of competency from the Board of Appointment.
VII.-Licensed Pilots: to whom subordinated: Unlicensed piloting, &c.—1.-Licen- sed Pilots may carry on their business either singly or in companies. They must pay due respect to the wishes and instructions of the Harbour Master under whose orders and control they are placed, and who is invested with power to suspend or dismiss, subject to an appeal to the Consul concerned. When the Pilot is a Foreigner the appeal to be lodged within three days.
2.-If guilty of any misconduct for which Consular punishment has been in- flicted, or if proved to have committed any offence against Revenue Laws, the individual concerned may be suspended or dismissed by the Harbour Master, subject to an appeal to his Consul. If a Foreigner, the appeal to be lodged within three days.
3.-Any one piloting without a Licence, or making use of another's Licence, shall be subject to prosecution before his own authorities, who will deal with the