3192 ARTICLE 15.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 84. 1880, ch. 487.

144. They are authorized to collect reasonable wharfage for the use of
said public wharves, from all vessels using the same, and the vessel or
cargo shall be liable therefor by process of attachment—the owner, master
or other person in charge of said vessel or cargo, to be made defendant in
such attachment—which attachment shall be according to the established
practice in this State in other cases, except that the affidavit required in
such attachments may be made by the wharf master in charge of said
county wharves; and execution may issue upon any judgment of condem-
nation in such cases, thirty days after said judgment is rendered.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 85. 1880, ch. 487.

145. The rules and regulations authorized by the preceding section
shall be printed and furnished by the county commissioners for the infor-
mation of the public, to the several wharf masters, who shall be bound,
upon request, to exhibit a copy thereof to the owner, master or other
person in charge of a vessel using any of said public wharves, or to any
person receiving or delivering freight thereon.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 86. 1880, ch. 487.

146. The county commissioners may appoint or qualify between the
first day of April and first day of May in each year, one wharf master
for each and every public wharf in said county, unless in their discretion
the business of any wharf is not sufficient to justify said appointment;
and may fix the penalty of his bond, and his compensation to be derived
from fines and wharfage; such wharf master shall hold his position for
one year, or until his successor shall be appointed, and shall account,
under oath, to the county commissioners, for all fines and wharfage col-
lected by him within thirty days after his year of office has expired.

1914, ch. 136, sec. 87A1.

147. The Board of County Commissioners of Kent County may, and
they are hereby empowered to levy, appropriate, and use in their discre-
tion, under such rules and regulations as they may prescribe, any sum or
sums of money not exceeding seven hundred and twenty dollars ($720.00)
per year for farmers' co-operative demonstration work in Kent County,
along the same line as this work is or may be conducted by the United
States Department of Agriculture, and may conduct such work jointly
in Kent County with the agents and representatives of the United States
Department of Agriculture, upon such terms and conditions as may be
agreed upon between the agent of the Department of Agriculture of the
United States and the Board of County Commissioners of Kent County.

1929, ch. 155.

148. The County Commissioners of Kent County are hereby author-
ized and empowered to sell all or any part or parts of the Ferry Lot
located in Chestertown, Maryland, and purchased by the County Com-