Puget Sound pilot laws and regulations
Subtitle: an act entitled an act to establish pilots and pilot regulations for Juan de Fuca strait, Puget Sound, and all American water pertaining thereto.
Contributors: Washington Territorial Imprints.; Pacific Northwest History Collection.
Publisher: s.n.]
Published: 1878
Place of publication: [Olympia?
Language: eng
Subjects: Maritime law -- Washington (State); Pilots and pilotage -- Washington (State); Washington (State) -- Politics and government -- To 1889; Juan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.); Puget Sound (Wash.)
Notes: Folio four-columed broadside inside a double-ruled black border.

"Adopted by the present Board of Commissioners Nov. 4th, 1878" first adopted by the May 4, 1868, as passed by the Washington Territorial Legislature. A compreshnsive set of laws and regulations, the act having 31 sections, and the by-laws fifteen."

"Sec. 8. That person applying for licenses to act as pilots shall be American citizens, and legal voters of this Territory, not under twent-one years of age, and shall be rigidly examined by the commissioners in public, touching their qualifications and knowledge of the management of square-rigged vessels, of the tides, soundings, bearings and instances of the different shoals, rocks, bars and points of land, and lights of the harbors and bays..."

WSU MASC copy is: 002-118713767.