LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1799.

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CHAPTER 83.
AN additional SUPPLEMENTARY ACT* to the act to regulate Public Ferries.
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 regu-
lated by law, and it may happen, that by the alteration of old
roads, or the laying out of new roads, leading 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,

*Nov. 1781,
ch. 22.

Preamble.

SEC. 2. 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 authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to estab-
lish and regulate such ferry agreeably to the respective acts of
assembly provided in such cases, and to ascertain the prices of
ferriage, and the number of boats and hands to be employed,
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

Ferries set
up to be
established,
&c.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That when and so often as it
shall happen, that by the lawful alteration of an old road, or
the opening of a new road, leading to any creek or river, a
communication over and across the same, by means of a ferry,
shall, in the judgment of the respective county courts, be
deemed useful and necessary, in every such case it shall be
lawful for the justices of the said county courts, and they are
respectively hereby authorized and empowered, to establish and
regulate a public ferry at every such place, and to license any
approved person or persons to keep the same, and to ascertain
the prices of ferriage thereat, and the number of boats and
hands to be employed, and to require recognizances, with suf-
ficient securities, for keeping the same, in like manner, to all
intents and purposes, as the said courts are now required by
law to do in cases of ferries heretofore established.

New ferries
may be es-
tablished,
&c.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That if any person or persons
whatever shall, after the first day of April next, presume to
keep a ferry for hire or reward at any place where a ferry is
now, or shall hereafter be established, without obtaining a
license, and entering into a recognizance, and complying with
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Penalty for
keeping
ferry with-
out license,
&c..