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COUNTIES AND COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. [ART. 22.

Id s 14.
1781, c 22, s 1.
Penalty for
keeping ferry
without license
or contract.

155- If any person shall keep a ferry for hire or reward, at any
place where a ferry is now or shall hereafter be established, without
license from or authority by contract with the county commissioners
or mayor of the city of Baltimore, he shall forfeit ten dollars for
every offence.

Id s 15
1788, c 33
How boats on
bay to be
furnished

1 56- Every person who shall be licensed, or who shall contract
to keep a public ferry across the Chesapeake bay, shall be obliged
to carry on board each public ferry-boat a good and sufficient anchor
and cable, a small yawl with a good pair of oars, and also hatches
and a substantial pair of oars and setting-poles for the said ferry-
boat, under the penalty of twenty-five dollars for every such neglect,
to be recovered before a justice of the peace.

Id s 16
1815, c 72
Ferry-keeper,
how punished
for neglect of
duty

15 7. Upon conviction in any court of a licensed ferry -keeper,
or any keeper of a ferry by contract, of the non-performance of his
duties, the court may fine such ferry-keeper in its discretion, not
exceeding one hundred dollars.

Id s 17
1828, c 36, s. 4
Penalty for in-
jury to property
of ferry

158- If any person shall wantonly and maliciously cut, injure
or destroy any boat, rope, oar or other tackling or thing used at a
public ferry, he shall be liable to a penalty of twenty dollars for
every offence; but the keeper of every ferry shall so arrange his
rope as not to impede 01 delay any vessel navigating the river or
creek.

Id s 18
1836, c 109, B 2.
Penalty for
delay in ferry-
ing

159. No ferryman shall delay ferrying any one and their prop-
erty across the ferry under his charge, and for every hour he shall
delay any one without lawful excuse, he shall pay a penalty of two
dollars for each hour he shall so delay them.

Id s 19
1822, c 148, 1824,
c 109, 182. 1, c 5.
18W, c 151
By whom boats
to be furnished

160* The county commissioners or mayor and city council of
Baltimore, shall provide boats for all ferries belonging to their re-
spective counties or city, and if the ferry is between two counties,
or between the said city and a county, then the commissioners of
the two counties, or the mayor and city council and the commis-
sioners of a county, shall provide a boat or boats for such ferry

Id c 20
1791, c 65
Where ferry
belongs to a
county, or to
two counties,
etc, residents
may be passed
free

161. When a ferry belongs to a county, or to two counties, or a
county and the city of Baltimore, the county commissioners of the
counties interested in such ferry, or the county commissioners and
mayor and city council, may authorize all residents of such counties
and city so interested to pass over said ferries free of charge.

Id s 21
1799, c 83, 3. 2
Contracts may
be made
through agents.

162. The county commissioners or mayor and city council may
make any contract of renting a ferry or keeping the same by any
agent appointed for that purpose, subject to the ratification of the
commissioners or mayor.

Id s 22
1833, c 151,
1836, c 109
Bonds, where to
be recorded

1 6 3. All bonds taken under the provisions of this article, re-
lating to ferries, shall be delivered to the clerk of the Circuit
Court for the county in which given, or the clerk of the Superior
Court of Baltimore City, if given in said city, to be by him re-
corded.