Com'rs of Pilots v. . Pac. Mail Steamship Co.

The plaintiff recovered a judgment of $100, interest and costs, against the defendant, pursuant to the twenty-ninth section of the pilotage act of 1853, as amended, for employing a person not holding a license as pilot under that act, or under the laws of the State of New Jersey, to act as pilot on its steamship "Rising Star," to pilot her to sea from the port of New York, by the way of Sandy Hook, on the 24th of July, 1868. That act requires the payment of that sum by persons employing unauthorized pilots, but the act does not apply to vessels "licensed and engaged in the coasting trade."…