662 KENT COUNTY. [ART. 14.

72, He shall rent out the stalls and shambles in the market
house, and the rooms and apartments over the same, and shall
keep an account of such rents and apply the same as fines are
hereinafter directed to be applied.

78. He shall receive for his services from said commissioners
the sum of fifty dollars per annum,

74. No person having charge or c6mmand of any vessel shall
lay or place said vessel so as to obstruct the ferry boats at the
public wharf and ferry at Chestertown from coming to and
landing passengers, horses, carriages or other articles, at. the
ferry stairs of said ferry, and any person so offending shall
forfeit the sum of five dollars, to be recovered by the clerk
of the market before any justice of the peace as other small
debts.

75. If any vessel shall lie more than thirty-six hours at the
public wharf in Chestertown for the purpose of unloading her
cargo, or shall come to the said wharf empty, the person haying
charge or command of said vessel shall forfeit and pay at the
rate of fifteen, cents per ton for every ton's burthen the said
vessel may be of, for every twenty-four hours she shall lie at said
wharf thereafter, to be recovered as directed in the preceding
section.

76. All money received by the said clerk under the two last
preceding sections shall be paid to the county commissioners
of Kent county for the use of the county, and the said wharf
and ferry stairs shall be kept in repair in. the same manner as
public roads and bridges in said county.

77. If any person shall fix or set, with stakes or poles, any gill
net or seine in. Chester River from Skulking Point to the mouth
of Morgan's Creek, and shall omit or neglect to have them taken
out of said river on or before the twentieth of June thereafter,
he shall forfeit two dollars for every offence, to be recovered by
indictment in the Circuit Court for Kent or Queen Anne's county,
as the case may be.

78. All fines, forfeitures and -penalties imposed in this article
for the protection, of the market and market house in said town,
may be recovered by warrant in the name of said commissioners
before any justice of the peace of the county where the offender