306 FEERIES. [ART. 39.

lars for every such neglect, to be recovered before a justice of
the peace.

16. Upon conviction in any court of a licensed ferry keeper,
or any keeper of a ferry by contract, of the non-performance of
his duties, the court may fine such ferry keeper in its discre-
tion, not exceeding one hundred dollars.

17. If any person shall wantonly and maliciously cut, injure
or destroy any boat, rope, oar or other tackling or thing used at
a public ferry, he shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for
every offence; but the keeper of every ferry shall so arrange
his rope as not to impede or delay any vessel navigating the
river or creek.

18. No ferryman shall delay ferrying any one and their pro-
perty across the ferry under his charge, and for every hour he
shall delay any one without lawful excuse, he shall pay a penalty
of two dollars for each hour he shall so delay them.

19. The county commissioners or mayor and city council of
Baltimore, shall provide boats for all ferries belonging to their
respective counties or city, and if the ferry is between two coun- .
ties, or between the said city and a county, then the commis-
sioners of the two counties, or the mayor and city council and
the commissioners of a county, shall provide a boat or boats for
such ferry.

20. When a ferry belongs to a county, or to two counties, or a
county and the city of Baltimore, the county commissioners of
the counties interested in such ferry, or the county commissioners
and mayor and city council, may authorize all residents of such
counties and city so interested to pass over said ferries free of
charge.

21. The county commissioners or mayor and city council may
make any contract of renting a ferry or keeping the same by
any agent appointed for that purpose, subject to the ratification
of the commissioners or mayor

22. All bonds taken under the provisions of this article, shall
be delivered to the clerk of the Circuit Court for the county in
which given, or the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore
city, if given in said city, to be by him recorded.