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(Notice No. 101 of 1915.)

Authority.The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. (H. 669/15.)

By Command of their Lordships,

HYDROGRAPHIC Department, ÅDMIRALTY,

LONDON, 9th February, 1915.

J. F. PARRY,

Hydrographer.

The Panama Canal,

EXECUTIVE OFFICE.

CULEBRA, C. Z., July 30, 1914.

Circular No. 681.

PILOT SERVICE.

1. Attention is invited to the 13th, 14th, and 15th paragraphs of Executive Order of July 9, 1914, providing "Rules and Regulations for the Operation and Navi- gation of the Panama Canal and Approaches Thereto, Including All Waters Under Its Jurisdiction," reading as follows:-

(13) Pilotage for vessels in transit through the Canal will be free, nor will they be charged pilotage for entering or leaving a terminal port when it is for the sole purpose of passing through the Canal; but should any such vessel, while in Canal waters, discharge or receive freight or passengers, or take on board supplies, provisions, stores or fuel, or remain for the purpose of effecting repairs, or make either terminal a port of call, she may be liable for entrance or departure pilotage, as the Canal authorities may direct.

(14) Pilotage in and out of the Atlantic and Pacific terminals of the Canal is compulsory, and all vessels, unless otherwise exempted, will be compelled to take a regular Government pilot upon entering or leaving. The fact that the master or any officer of any vessel holds a pilot's licence for any of the waters of the Canal Zone will not authorise the vessel to enter without taking a Government pilot.

(15) No person, steamer, company or corporation will be allowed to maintain or employ pilots in Canal waters for the exclusive use of their own or any other ves- sels; all pilots, without exception, must be duly authorized and licensed by the Canal authorities and be in the employ of the Canal. This shall not be interpreted to mean that the Canal authorities shall be prohibited from issuing restricted pilot licences for small craft in Canal waters, or any other that they may see fit.

2. The charge for pilotage will be based upon the maximum draft of the vessel, and will be at the rate of $1 per foot or fraction thereof, but no fraction will be con- sidered unless it equals or exceeds six inches, in which case the full charge for one foot will be imposed for such fraction.

3. In case a pilot be taken outside the Atlantic breakwaters, an additional fee of $10 will be charged. Pilots will board vessels just inside the Atlantic breakwaters, and at the seaward end of the buoyed channel on the Pacific end.

4. The above charges will become effective August 1, 1914.

The Panama Canal,

GEO. W. GOETHALS, Governor.

Circular No. 681-1.

EXECUTIVE OFFICE,

BALBOA HEIGHTS, C. Z., October 21, 1914.

(Amending Circular No. 681.)

PILOTAGE FOR VESSELS PASSING THROUGH CANAL.

Effective this date the regulations concerning charges for pilotage are so far amended that in future when vessels enter for the purpose of passing through the Canal, and do not take on or discharge freight or passengers, but do take coal or supplies, they will not be charged for pilotage.

GEO. W. GOETHALS, Governor.