Pennsylvania Statutes Title 55 P.S. Navigation § 136. Compensation for carrying pilot to another port

When any inward-bound ship or vessel, having a pilot on board, shall be prevented by the ice, or by any other cause, from proceeding to the port of Philadelphia, and shall be compelled to proceed to some other port or place not in the bay and river Delaware, the pilot shall be entitled to receive and recover from the owner or consignee of such ship or vessel full pilotage, as if he had conducted such ship or vessel to the port of Philadelphia, and shall also receive the sum of eight cents for each and every mile he shall travel to his usual place of abode.