FERRIES

1631

ARTICLE 37.

FERRIES.

	1. License to maintain.	13. Receiving excess over legal price; pen-
	2. Person obtaining license to give bond.	alty.
	3. Previous license to another no bar.	14. Carrying on ferry without license; pen-
	4. Refusal to take out license, or to rent	alty.
	land for purpose of maintaining	15. Ferries across Chesapeake bay; pre-
	public ferry; jury to be summoned.	cautions; penalty.
	5. Condemnation of land.	16. Non-performance of duties by ferry-
	6. Examination of inquisition by court	keeper; penalty.
	at instance of aggrieved proprietor. 7. Disability of owners.	17. Injury to boats, etc., used in public ferry; penalty; ferry not to impede
	8. Alteration of old or opening of new roads; establishment of ferries. 9. Rental of public ferry; contract to keep; levy for price paid.	navigation. 18. Delay on part of ferryman; penalty. 19. Ferries belonging to county or city; by whom boats provided; ferries between city and county.
	10. Bond given by contractor; no con-	20. Ferry belonging to a county, two coun-
	tract to keep ferry where one al-	ties or county and city of Baltimore ;
	ready kept.	free passage.
	11 . Prices and facilities to be ascertained	21. Contract for renting or keeping ferry,
	by county commissioners or mayor.	subject to ratification.
	12. Copy of license or contract and list of	22. Record of bonds taken under pro-
	prices to be shown; penalty.	visions of this article.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 1. 1912, 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.

This section referred to in discussing meaning of term "citizen"—see notes to art. 25,
sec. 144. Fitzwater v. Hydro-Elec. Corp., 149 Md. 467.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 2. 1912, 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
daylight, for the residue of the year, and that he will not charge or receive
any greater price for ferriage than allowed by law.