General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature Page: 1,174
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Ch. 459 58TH LEGISLATURE--REGULAR SESSION
first offered his services before she came in; but if she has come in with-
out the aid of a pilot, or the offer of one outside, she shall not, in case of
going out without a pilot, be liable to half pilotage. At any port where
vessels shall receive or discharge their cargoes at an anchorage outside
of the bar, such vessel shall be liable to pilotage at the above rate to such
anchorage, but shall not be liable for or compelled to pay pilotage from
such anchorage to the open sea; and if any vessel bound from open sea
to such anchorage, while under way, shall decline the services of a pilot,
and shall afterward receive or discharge any portion of her cargo at such
anchorage on the lighters or otherwise, she shall be liable for the payment
of half pilotage, at the above rate, to such anchorage to the first pilot
whose services shall have been tendered to and declined by her, but not
liable for any pilotage from such anchorage to the open sea; and when a
pilot takes charge of a vessel twenty (20) miles outside of the bar, and
brings her to it, he shall be entitled to one-fourth (/4) pilotage for such
off-shore service, in addition to what he is entitled to recover for bringing
her in, but if such off-shore service be declined, no portion of said com-
pensation shall be recovered."
Sec. 2. All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby ex-
pressly repealed.
Sec. 3. The fact that the 57th Legislature amended Article 8274 of the
Revised Civil Statutes of Texas and excluded the Port of Galveston from
the general rate of Six Dollars ($6.00) fixed therein and that in the Port
of Galveston, the cost of living is rising and the purchasing power of the
dollar is decreasing, and that wages and salaries in all private industry
have increased to an extent that pilots of vessels in ports of this state
continue in their services at a sacrifice in many instances; and the fur-
ther fact that the crowded condition of the calendar in both Houses, create
an emergency and an imperative public necessity that the Constitutional
Rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each House be sus-
pended, and said Rule is hereby suspended; and that this Act shall take
effect and be in force from and after its passage, and it is so enacted.
Passed the Senate, May 9, 1963: Yeas 31, Nays 0; passed the House
May 22, 1963, by a non-record vote.
Approved June 10, 1963.
Effective 90 days after May 24, 1963, date of adjournment.1174
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Texas. Legislature. General and Special Laws of The State of Texas Passed By The Third Called Session of the Fifty-Seventh Legislature and the Regular Session of the Fifty-Eighth Legislature, legislative document, 1963; [Austin, Texas]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth221759/m1/1510/?q=+date%3A1945-1972: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.