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FERRIES.

[ART. 37

ARTICLE XXXVII

FERRIES.

1, License to maintain. 2. Person obtaining license to give bond. 3. Previous license to another no bar. 4. Refusal to take out license, or to rent land for purpose of main- taining public ferry; jury to be summoned, 5. Condemnation of land. 6. Examination of inquisition by court at instance of aggrieved proprie- tor. 7. Disability of owners. 8. Alteration of old or opening of new roads; establishment of ferries. 9. Rental of public ferry; contract to keep; levy for price paid. 10. Bond to be given 'by contractor; no contract to keep ferry where one is already kept. 11. Prices and facilities to be ascer- tained by county commissioners or mayor.

12. Copy of license or contract and list of prices to be shown; penalty. 13. Receiving excess over legal price ; penalty. 14. Carrying on ferry without license; penalty. 15. Ferries across the Chesapeake bay ; precautions; penalty. 16. Non-performance of duties by ferry- keeper; penalty. 17. Injury to boats, etc., used in public ferry; penalty; ferry not to im- pede navigation. 18. Delay on part of ferryman; penalty. 19. Ferries belonging to county or city; by whom boats to be provided ; ferries between city and county. 20. Ferry belonging to a county, two counties, or county and city of Baltimore; free passage. 21. Contract for renting or keeping ferry, subject to ratification. 22. Record of bonds taken under pro- visions of this article.

1904, art. 37, sec. 1. 1888, art. 37, aec. 1. 1860, art. 39, sec. 1. 1781, ch. 22, sec. 1.
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.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888, art. 37, sec. 2. 1860, art. 39, sec. 2. 1781, ch. 22, sec. 2.

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 diligently 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.