of all vessels they shall board, or to whom they shall have opportunity to communicate the same. If any pilot shall pilot any vessel subject to quarantine to or near any wharf, he shall forfeit his branch, and may be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars.

SEC. 13. The health officers shall communicate any regulation or orders by them made respecting quarantine to the commander of any fort near such port, and desire his coöperation in stopping all vessels subject to quarantine attempting to pass into the harbor. If any such vessel shall attempt to pass after being hailed and forbidden, a shot may be fired ahead of such vessel, and if she shall persist, then a shot astern thereof, and if she shall still persist, then such vessel shall be fired upon and into until she shall bring to and submit to such regulations and orders; and such commander shall receive five dollars for each shot so made, to be paid by the master before he shall leave the quarantine ground.

SEC. 14. All forfeitures for the violation of any regulation prescribed by the health officers, and all expenses incurred by them in pursuance of this chapter, may be recovered of the several persons liable thereto by action of debt, to be brought by such health officers in the name of the town, with costs.

CHAPTER 128.

OF PILOTS AND PILOTAGE, AND THE HARBOR OF PISCATAQUA.

SECTION 1. That the governor and council be and they hereby are empowered to appoint three persons from among the members of the Portsmouth Marine Society, to be commissioners of pilotage of the harbor and river of the Piscataqua, who shall hold their offices for five years; and said commissioners and their successors are hereby authorized and empowered to make and establish all such ordinances, rules and regulations touching pilots and pilotage for the harbor and river of the Piscataqua as they may from time to time determine to be proper, and from time to time may modify, rescind or otherwise alter the same: provided, that the same shall be published in some newspaper in said Portsmouth, at least thirty days before the same shall go into operation; also to prescribe the qualifications of pilots, and from time to time to appoint and,

under their hands and seals, commission such persons as they, by major vote, may determine, and the same remove at their discretion; and to take such security by way of bonds or otherwise as they shall deem proper. (Laws of 1852, chap. 1285, sec. 1.)

SEC. 2. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in said board of commissioners, it shall be the duty of the said Portsmouth Marine Society to recommend from the members of said society three suitable persons to be commissioners of pilotage, to the governor and council, who are hereby empowered from one of the three so recommended, to appoint one person to fill such vacancy; and in like manner shall all vacancies which may from time to time occur be filled up. And the governor and council shall, from time to time, as there may be occasion, fix the fees for pilotage, and notify the commissioners thereof; and the commissioners shall insert the tariff of fees upon the commission which they shall give the persons appointed pilots; and until the governor and council shall otherwise order, the fees for pilotage shall be the same as now in force. (Laws of 1852, chap. 1285, sec. 2.)

SEC. 3. Any pilot may take charge of any vessel drawing seven feet of water or upwards, (except coasting and fishing vessels of the United States, of one hundred and twenty tons,) bound into or out of the harbor of Piscataqua, and shall pilot such vessels into or out of said port, first showing to the master thereof his branch or warrant if requested. (Laws of 1846, chap. 348, sec. 1.)

SEC. 4. Any master or owner may pilot his own vessel; but if any pilot or his deputy shall speak and offer service to any vessel bound into said harbor, at sea beyond the light house, he shall be entitled to one half the fees specified in his warrant, in case the master or owner declines to employ him; and on refusal of payment, may sue for and recover the same. (Laws of 1846, chap. 348, sec. 2.)

1. Sea weed not to be carried from salt 3. Sea weed not to be piled below high

marshes.

2. Sea weed not to be collected by night.

water mark.

SECTION 1. If any person shall collect or carry away from any salt marsh or flats in any town in this State, any flats weed or

any sea weed thrown thereon by the sea or tide, without leave of the owner of such marsh or flat, he shall on conviction thereof before any justice, on complaint, be punished by fine not exceeding ten dollars for each offence. (R. S., chap. 123, sec. 1.)

SEC. 2. If any person shall collect and carry away or pile up for the purpose of carrying away, any sea weed or rock weed from the sea shore below high water mark, in any town in this State, or shall assist therein between daylight in the evening and daylight in the morning, he shall be punished by fine not less than twentyfive dollars nor more than fifty dollars, for the use of the county in which such offence shall be committed. (R. S., chap. 123, sec. 2, amended by laws of 1850, chap. 1001, sec. 1.)

SEC. 3. If any person shall pile up for the purpose of hauling away any sea weed or rock weed below high water mark, in any town in this State, he shall on conviction thereof be punished by fine not less than five nor more than ten dollars for the use aforesaid. (R. S., chap. 123, sec. 3, amended by laws of 1850, chap. 1001, sec. 2.)

SECTION 1. Every pedler or other person going from place to place, either on foot or with a horse, or otherwise, carrying to sell or exposing for sale any goods, wares or merchandise, or taking a store or shop or residence in any town for that purpose for a less time than one year, without license, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars.

SEC. 2. The provisions of the preceding section shall not apply to any citizen of this State who shall present to the clerk of the court of common pleas, a certificate from the selectmen of the town in which he resides, of his inability to earn a subsistence by manual labor, by reason of ill health or decrepitude, nor to any person going about or otherwise selling or exposing for sale, fish,

breadstuffs, meat and animals, or any articles of the growth, produce or manufacture of this State, except distilled spirits, playing cards, lottery tickets and jewelry.

SEC. 3. The clerk of the court of common pleas for the county in which any applicant, being a resident of this State, may reside, or of any county, if such applicant be not a resident of this State, may grant such license for one year only, upon application, and satisfactory evidence on oath of the residence and good moral character of the applicant, being filed in the office of said clerk; such license shall be recorded and a copy delivered to the party applying, and said clerk shall receive for his fees in relation to said license, the sum of one dollar, to be paid by the applicant.

SEC. 4. No license granted in pursuance of the provisions of this chapter shall be of any avail until the party applying shall, if a resident of this State at the time of such application and for at least one year next prior thereto, have paid to the county treasurer the sum of ten dollars, or if not such resident of this State, until the applicant shall have paid to the county treasurer the sum of twenty dollars, and the said treasurer shall have signed a receipt for the same on the back of such license.

SEC. 5. Nor shall any such license be of any avail to authorize the sale of any goods, wares or merchandise, the property of any person or persons who shall not at the time of such application and for at least one year next previous thereto, have been an inhabitant, or resident of this State, until such applicant shall in like manner have paid to said treasurer the sum of twenty dollars, and the said treasurer shall have so receipted for the same on the back of such license, or unless leave for the sale of such property shall be expressed in such license.

SEC. 6. If any pedler or other person licensed as aforesaid shall transfer his license to any other person, with intent that the same shall be fraudulently used by him, or if any person licensed as aforesaid shall refuse to show his license when requested by any person, he shall be punished in the same manner as for selling without license.

SEC. 7. Every justice on complaint for any violation of this chapter may by warrant cause the offender to be arrested, and order him to recognize with sufficient sureties for his appearance at the next term of the court of common pleas, to answer for said offence.

SECTION 1. No showman, tumbler, rope dancer, ventriloquist, or other person shall for pay exhibit any feats of agility or of horsemanship, or sleight of hand, rope dancing, or feats with cards, or any animals, wax figures, puppets or other show without a license from the selectmen of the town. (R. S., sec. 1.)

SEC. 2. No theatrical or dramatic representation shall be performed or exhibited, in any town in this State, unless a license therefor shall first be obtained from the selectmen of such town, in the same manner and under the same penalty as is provided in the act to which this is an amendment (this chapter.) (Laws of 1850, chap. 971.)

SEC. 3. Every such license shall be in writing and shall specify the days such person is allowed to perform or exhibit, and every such person shall pay for such license, for the use of the town, a sum not less than thirty dollars nor more than fifty dollars, for each day such person shall perform or exhibit. (R. S., sec. 2.)

SEC. 4. All licenses under this act (this chapter) shall be paid for in advance. (Laws of 1850, chap. 971.)

SEC. 5. If any person shall violate the provisions of this chapter, he shall for every such offence be punished by a fine of one hundred dollars, one half for the use of the town, the other half for the use of the complainant. (R. S., sec. 3.)

SEC. 6. Any justice on complaint of any violation of said provisions, may by warrant cause the offender to be arrested and order him to recognize with sufficient sureties for his appearance at the next court of common pleas to answer for said offence. (R. S., sec. 4.)