ART. 37.] FERRIES. 725

15. Ferries across the Chesapeake bay; precautions; penalty 16. Non-performance of duties by ferry-keeper, penalty. 17 Injury to boats, etc., used in pub- lic ferry; penalty, ferry not to impede'navigation 18. Delay on part of ferryman; pen- alty. 19. Ferries belonging to county or city, by whom boats to be pro-

vided: ferries between city and county. 20 Perry belonging to a county, two counties, 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.

P. G. L., (1860,) art 39, 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 llcense
at any other period of the year, to be in force only until the first
day of May then next ensuing.

Ibid. 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 commissioners 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.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1782, ch. 31, sec. 3.

3. 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, not-
withstanding they or he may have, previous to such application,