Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 34, § 943. Associated branch pilots; number

The pilots whose duty it shall be to pilot sea-going vessels into and out of the entrance of the Mississippi River and into and out of the entrances of all other waterways connecting the Port of New Orleans with outside waters of the Gulf of America, including the entrance of the New Orleans Tidewater Channel at the western shore of the Chandeleur Sound off Point Chicot, shall be known as Associated Branch Pilots of the Port of New Orleans. There shall not be less than twenty-five of such pilots and they shall be appointed and commissioned by the governor from time to time as the need arises and in accordance with the procedure prescribed in R.S. 34:945.