MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                               269

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.

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.

3.

Whenever any person shall apply to the county
commissioners 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 application, granted
license or licenses to other persons to keep a ferry at
the same place.

4.

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 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 or 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 by jurymen, 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.