302 FERRIES. [ART. 39.

ARTICLE XXXIX.
Ferries.

SEC. 1. The county commissioners of the several counties and
the mayor of Baltimore, may, on the first day of May in each
year, grant a license to any inhabitant of their county or city to
keep a public ferry at any place within their county or city
where a ferry has been kept and established, and from such place
to any other county, or from the said city to any county, or
from this to any other State, and such license shall be renewed
annually; and the said county commissioners or mayor may
grant such license at any other period of the year, to be in force
only until the first day of May then next ensuing.

2. Every person obtaining a license to keep a ferry, shall give
bond to the State with two sufficient securities in the sum of
two hundred dollars, conditioned that he will faithfully and dili-
gently keep the ferry for which he shall obtain license with such
hands and boats as the county commissioners or mayor shall
direct, from daylight to daylight, from the first of November to
the first of March, and from an hour before to' an hour after
daylight, for the residue of the year, and that he will not charge
or receive any greater price for ferriage than allowed by law.

8. Whenever any person shall apply to the county commis-
sioners or mayor of the city of Baltimore for a license to keep
a public ferry, and shall offer two good and sufficient securities,
the county commissioners or mayor shall grant such license,
notwithstanding they or he may have, previous to such applica-
tion, granted license or licenses to other persons to keep a ferry
at the same place.

4. If the proprietor of the land at any place now used as a
public ferry, or where a public ferry may hereafter be esta-
blished, shall refuse or neglect for the space of two months to
take out a license agreeably to this article, or to rent the houses
and land commonly used with or necessary for such ferry, to
some person to be approved of by the said commissioners who
will take out a license for the same, or be under any disability
to take out a license, or to rent as aforesaid, by reason whereof