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ARTICLE 37.

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 maintaining public ferry; jury to be summoned. 5. Condemnation of land. 6. Examination of inquisition by court at instance of aggrieved proprietor. 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 given by contractor; no con- tract to keep ferry where one al- ready kept. 11. Prices and facilities to be ascertained 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; pen- alty. 14. Carrying on ferry without license; pen- alty. 15. Ferries across Chesapeake bay; pre- cautions; penalty. 16. Non-performance of duties by ferry- keeper; penalty. 17. Injury to boats, etc., used in public ferry; penalty; ferry not to impede navigation. 18. Delay on part of ferryman; penalty. 19. Ferries belonging to county or city; by whom boats provided; ferries between city and county. 20. Ferry belonging to a county, two coun- ties 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.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, 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.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec 2. 1888, 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 commis-
sioners or mayor shall direct, from daylight to daylight, from the first of
November to the first of March, and from an hour before to an hour after