304 FERRIES. [ART. 39.

same in the same manner as other county expenses, and shall
order such sum when levied to be paid over to the person or
persons entitled to receive the same as being interested in such
condemned land; and it shall thereupon be lawful for the said
county commissioners to direct the necessary buildings to be
erected thereon at the expense of the county, and the same shall
be annually rented out by them for the use and benefit of the
said county.

7. In cases of infancy or other legal disability, it shall and
may be lawful for such infant or other person, or his or her legal
representative, whose land may be condemned under the pro-
visions of the preceding sections, at any time within three years
after the removal of such disability, to repay to the county com-
missioners or other collector the amount of the valuation of such,
condemned land, if the same shall have been paid as above
directed, and also the real value at the time of such disability
being removed of any buildings or other improvements that
may have been erected thereon at the expense of the county, or
if the same be refused, to make a tender thereof, and such con-
demned property with the improvements thereon, shall revert to
and become again the property of svich person as fully as the
same would have been if such condemnation had never taken
place.

8. Whenever by the lawful alteration of an old road, or the
opening of a new road leading to any creek or river, a com-
munication over and across the same by means of a ferry shall,
in the judgment of the county commissioners, be deemed useful
and necessary, in every such case it shall be lawful for the, said
county commissioners to establish and regulate a public ferry at
every such place, and to license any approved person 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 bond
with sufficient securities in the same manner as in cases of ferries
heretofore established.

9. The county commissioners or mayor of the city of Balti-
more, may rent a ferry belonging to the public, or contract with
such person as they may think proper, and at such price as
they shall judge reasonable, for the keeping the same, and the
prices contracted to be paid shall be levied on the county or
city.