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1872.] .OF THE SENATE. 471 said Company shall run two ferry boats, as required by the third section of the Act to which this is a supplement, and shall so manage the said ferry, as that one of their ferry boa's shall leave each end of said ferry at least every ten, minutes, between the hours of 6 o'clock, A. M., and 8 o'clock, P. M., and at intervals of twenty-five minutes, between the hours of 8 o'clock, P. M., and 12 o'clock, midnight." That your petitioner, previously, and up to the passing of this supplementary Act, had been running a regularly li- censed steam ferry boat, called the ''Portsmouth," between the wharves at the foot of Broadway and Haubert street aforesaid, and had expended from twelve to fifteen thousand dollars in establishing, equipping and conducting said ferry route. That your petitioner apprehends it will not be disputed, that previously to the passage of said supplementary Act, he enjoyed, in common with others, all the rights and privileges appertaining to the use of said sides and ends of said wharves, as a landing place, and, therefore, it is evident, in withdraw- ing from your petitioner these rights and privileges, and granting them exclusively to the said "Broadway and Locust Point Steam Ferry Company of Maryland," your petitioner must, of necessity, sustain considerable loss and damage, to avert which your petitioner infers that section 5, of said sup- plementary Act, was enacted. That said section five of said supplementary Act enacts, " that the amendments hereby made to the Act to which this is a supplement, and the privileges hereby granted to the said Broadway and Locust Point Steam Ferry Company of Maryland, are made and granted upon the following condi- tion, that is to say, that if Mr. Joseph Hankey, the reput- ed owner of the ferry boat called the Portsmouth, shall agree to sell and convey to the said Company the said terry boat Portsmouth for such a sum as shall be ascertained to he its fair value, in manner and form therein set forth, then the said Broadway and Locust Point Steam Ferry Company of Maryland shall have the privileges granted by (.aid supplementary Act." In other words, the exclusive right to the occupation and use of said wharves for feny purposes. Your petitioner purther sheweth to your Honorable House, that in accordance with fifth section of said supplementary Act, he made arrangements to cany out the condition there- in set forth for the sale and conveyance of the said ferry be 'at Portsmouth. That after considerable difficulty, arbitrators were appointed, and an award made signed by two of said arbitrator! for the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, as the estimated value of the ferry boat Portsmouth. That the arbitrator appointed by your petitioner protested |
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