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430. The said Board of Examining Engineers shall receive
an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars each, and shall have
power to employ a clerk or secretary at a salary not exceeding
the sum of one thousand dollars per annum, and such expense
shall be allowed said board as shall be incurred in traveling ex-
pense, office rent, stationery and printing, and for which they
shall produce to the Comptroller of the State Treasury, proper
vouchers; provided, however, that no appropriation shall be
made and no moneys paid by the State Treasurer to said board
for or on account of said salaries and expenses, but that the
same shall be paid to them by and from the fees received for the
examination and certificates hereinbefore provided for; and
provided further, that the said board shall keep a strict account
of all fees received for such purposes, and quarterly, under
oath or affirmation, return said statement to the Comptroller of
the State Treasury; and whenever the amount is in excess of the
salaries and expenses hereinbefore provided for they shall for-
ward such excess to said Comptroller, and they shall keep
a certificate book with the certificates therein duly numbered
and of which to each certificate there is a corresponding stub to
be filled in to correspond in all respects to the certificate issued,
and subject to the inspection of the Comptroller, when he may
deem the same necessary.

FERRIES.

431. The Broadway and Locust Point Steam Ferry Com-
pany of Maryland is created to establish a steam ferry, suitable
to transport passengers, goods, wagons, carriages, live-stock or
any other transportable article, across, over and within the
harbor of Baltimore; and the said corporation is made capable
of erecting wharves, buildings, or any other contrivances neces-
sary or convenient for the conduct of the business of the ferry,
for which purpose the said corporation is authorized to pur-
chase, hold, sell, rent or lease land. And the said company is
authorized and empowered to hold and use as a wharf or land-
ing, for the use of said ferry, the end of the wharf commonly
known as the County wharf, together with a right of way in
common with others, through the centre of said wharf, of the
width of ten feet, as a thoroughfare for travel to and from the