shall be forthwith sold,) and after charges deducted, the residue of the money, with an account of 
the whole, shall be transmitted to the treasurer, who shall keep an account of the same for the bene- 
fit of the owners or insurers, who, upon proof of his, her or their property, to the satisfaction of 
the auditor, shall, upon his warrant, receive the same; if any person, besides those empowered by 
the wreck-master, shall enter or endeavour to enter on board any vessel in distress, without the leave 
of the commanding officer, or in case any person shall molest him or them in savin gthe vessel or goods, 
or shall endeavour to hinder the saving such vessel or goods, or shall deface the marks of any such
goods before they be taken down in a book by the wreck-master, every person shall forfeit and pay
the sum of fifty pounds, to be recovered, with costs, by action of debt in any court of record within
this state, and applied to the use of the owners of the vessel or goods, as the case may be, and in
case of failure to pay such forfeiture immediately, or giving security to pay the same within one
month, he, she or they, shall receive not exceeding thirty-nine lashes on his, her or their bare back,
by order of such court; it shall be lawful for any commanding officer of a vessel in distress, or the
wreck-master, to repel by force any persons who shall, without consent as aforesaid, press on board
any vessel in distress, and thereby molest them in preserving the vessel or goods; and in case any
goods shall be found upon any person that were stolen or carried off from any vessel in distress, the
person on whom such goods be found shall, upon demand, deliver the same to the owner or wreck-
master, or to such other person as shall be authorised by the wreck-master or owner to receive such
goods, or shall be liable to pay four times the value, to be recovered, with costs, in any court of
record; if any person shall make, or be assisting in making, a hole in any vessel in distress, or steal
any pump, materials or goods, or shall be aiding in stealing such pump, materials or goods, from any
vessel, or shall wilfully do any thing tending to the immediate loss of such vessel, such person shall be
guilty of felony, and suffer death without benefit of clergy.

III. AND BE IT ENACTED, That if any wreck-master shall, by fraud or wilful neglect, abuse the
trust reposed in him, he shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit and pay four times the damages to the
party aggrieved, to be recovered, with costs, by action on the case, in any court of record, and shall
thenceforth be incapable of acting as a wreck-master; any constable, or person summoned by him,
refusing or neglecting to give the assistance required for the saving of any vessel, or the cargo, shall
forfeit and pay, to the use of Worcester county, the sum of ten pounds, to be recovered before any
justice by this wreck-master shall set up a copy of this act once in every year in the court-house of the 
said county.

IV. PROVIDED ALWAYS, AND BE IT ENACTED, That the wreck-master appointed by virtue of
this act shall give bond and security, in the court of the county where he resides, in the sum of one
thousand pounds, for the due and faithful execution of his office; and that it shall not be lawful for
such wreck-master to enter upon the duties of his office before he gives bond and security as aforesaid.

                                                CHAP. LXXXIII.
An additional supplementary act to the act (a) to regulate public ferries.
    Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 348.
                                              (a) November, 1781, ch. 22.

WHEREAS since the passage of the original act to regulate public ferries, divers individuals
have set up ferries, which have been found beneficial to the public, and ought to be regulated
by law, and it may happen, that by the alteration of old roads, or the laying out of new roads, lead-
ing to creeks and rivers, it may be necessary to establish new ferries, in order to render such roads 
serviceable to the community, and in every such case such new ferries ought also to be regulated by
law; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That in any case where individuals have
set up new ferries since the passage of the said, original act, which have been found beneficial and
expedient, it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the county court of the county respectively
wherein such ferry shall have been so set up, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, in their
discretion, to establish and regulate such ferry agreeably to the respective acts of assemlby provided
in such cases, and to ascertain the prices of ferriage, and the number of boats and hands to be em-
ployed, and to require the recognizance of any person keeping the same, in like manner, to all
intents and purposes, as if such ferry had been kept and established at the time of the passage of the
said original act.
 
                                                                                                                                   III. AND

CHAP.
LXXXII.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Penalty for be-
ing guilty of
fraud, &c.
 
 
 
 
 

Proviso.
 
 
 
 

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.
 

Preamble.
 
 
 
 
 

Ferries set up
to be establish-
ed, &c.