Half pilotage
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
Compensation for services which a ilot has put himself in readiness to perform, y labor, risk, and cost, and has offered to perform, at half the rate he would have received if the services had actually been performed.
Gloucester Ferry Co., v. Pennsvlvania, 114 U. S. 196 , 5 Sup. Ct. 826, 29 L. Ed. 158,