...— " SEC. 4. That all pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States, shall continue to be regulated in conformity with...legislative provision shall be made by Congress." By this act, it will be perceived that the laws of the States in relation to pilotage were recognized...

...law enacting, that "all pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the Upited States, shall continue to be regulated in conformity with...for the purpose, until further legislative provision Statement of the case. shall be made by Congress."* With the single exception of a law of 1837,f by...

...reads as follows : " All pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States, shall continue to be regulated in conformity with...laws as the States may respectively hereafter enact far the purpose, until further legislative provision shall be made by Congress." In 1837, another act...

...the United States, shall continue to be regulated in conformity with the ex- existing laws of isting laws of the States respectively wherein such pilots may be, or with the respective such laws as the States may respectively hereafter enact for the purpose, State3> until...

...further enacted, That all pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States shall continue to be regulated in conformity with...further legislative provision shall be made by Congress. ACT OF 1790, CHAPTER 9 (1 US Stats. at Large, 112). An Act for the Punishment of certain Crimes against...

...in conformity with the existing laws of the States, respectively, wherein such pilots may be, or by such laws as the States may respectively hereafter...further legislative provision shall be made by Congress. 1 US Sts. at Large, 54. Although Congress did not totally divest itself of its rightful jurisdiction...

...congress declared that all pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States, shall continue to be regulated in conformity with the existing laws of the States, &c.; and that this contemporaneous construction of the constitution since acted on with such uniformity...

...is declared, that " All pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors, and ports of the United States, shall continue to be regulated in conformity with...existing laws of the states respectively wherein such piiots may be, or with such laws as the states may respectively thereafter enact for the purpose, until...

...existing laws of the Stales. e W0en port situate upon waters which are the boundary between two States, States respectively wherein such pilots may be, or with such laws as the States may respectively enact for the purpose. PHots on bound- S EC 4236 '£) le mas t er o f ally vessel coming into or going...

...language is as follows: " All pilots in the bays, inlets, rivers, harbors and ports of the United States shall continue to be regulated in conformity with...legislative provision shall be made by congress." It might readily have been foreseen that the states, thus left to *1 St. 54. 5 St. 153. separate, independent...