ART. 22. ] COUNTIES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

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sheriff shall proceed to collect the same from the managers, in the
same manner as other county charges are collected, and pay the
same to the said county commissioners for the use of the county

Costs.

141. The provisions of the aforegoing sections of this article
relating to draining lands, shall apply to all lands requiring drainage.

FERRIES.

1870, c 382
To what pre-
ceding sections
applicable.

14: 2, 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

Art 39, s 1.
1781, c 22, s 1
Grant of license
to keep public
ferry.

143. 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 day-
light to daylight, from the first of November to the 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.

Id s 2
1781, c 22, s 2,
Person licensed
to give bond.
Condition

. 244. Whenever any person shall apply to the county commis-
sioners or mayor of the city of Baltimore for a license to keep a
public ferry, and shall offer two good and sufficient securities, the
county commissioners or mayor shall grant such license, notwith-
standing they or he may have, previous to such application, granted
license or licenses to other persons to keep a ferry at the same
place.

Id s 3
1782, c 31, s 3
Grant of license
where license
exists.

145, If the proprietor of the land at any place now used as a
public ferry, or where a public ferry may hereafter be established,
shall refuse or neglect for the space of two months to take out a li-
cense agreeably to this article, or to rent the houses and land com-
monly used with or necessary for such ferry, to some person to be
approved of by the said commissioners who will take out a license
for the same, or be under any disability to take out a license, or to
rent as aforesaid, by reason whereof the same shall be delayed to be
done to the inconvenience of the public, for the space of three
months beyond the annual time for granting such ferry licenses, in
such case the county commissioners of the county in which such

Id s 4
1719, c 83, s 5
Land may bo
condemned for
public ferry.

land shall lie shall issue a warrant to the sheriff of the county to
summon twelve respectable disinterested persons qualified by law to
be jurymen, and also the surveyor of the county, to meet on the

Proceedings