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grant such license at any other period of the year, to be in
force only until the first day of May then next ensuing.

1888, art. 37, sec. 2. 1860, art. 39, 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. 1860, art. 39, 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,
notwithstanding they or he may have, previous to such appli-
cation, granted license or licenses to other persons to keep a
ferry at the same place.

Ibid. sec. 4. 1860, art. 39, sec. 4. 1799, ch 83, sec. 5.

4. If the proprietor of the land at any place now used as a
public ferry, or where a public ferry may hereafter be estab-
lished, shall refuse or neglect for the space of two months to
take out a license agreeably to this article, or to rent the houses
and land commonly 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 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 land shall lie shall
issue a warrant to the sheriff of the county to summon twelve
respectable disinterested persons qualified by law to be jury-
men, and also the surveyor of the county, to meet on the
premises on a day by him to be appointed, of which due and
timely notice shall be given by the said sheriff to the owner or
possessor of such land.
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