MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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within three years after the removal of each disability,
to repay to the county commissioners or other collector,
the amount of the valuation of such condemned land, if
the same shall have been paid as above directed, and also
the real value at the time of such disability being
removed of any buildings or other improvements that may
have been erected thereon at the expense of the county,
or if the same be refused, to make a tender thereof; and
such condemned property, with the improvements thereon,
shall revert to and become again the property of such
person, as full as the same would have been if such
condemnation had never taken place.

8.

Whenever by the lawful alteration of an old road, or
the opening of a new road leading to any creek or river,
a communication over and across the same by means of a
ferry shall, in the judgment of the county commissioners
be deemed useful and necessary, in every such case it
shall be lawful for the said county commissioners to
establish and regulate a public ferry at every such
place, and to license any approved person to keep the
same, and to ascertain the prices of ferriage thereat,
and the number of boats and hands to be employed, and to
require bond with sufficient securities in the same
manner as in cases of ferries heretofore established.

9.

The county commissioners or mayor of the City of
Baltimore may rent a ferry belonging to the public, or
contract with such person as they may think proper, and
at such price as they shall judge reasonable for the
keeping the same; and the prices contracted to be paid
shall be levied on the county or city.

10.

Whenever such contract shall be made, the county
commissioners or mayor shall take bond from the
contractor for the faithful discharge of his duty, and
shall establish the rates of ferriage to be charged by
him, from all persons not entitled to pass free, as
directed in § 11; but this section shall not authorize
the county commissioners or mayor to contract for keeping
a ferry at any place where a ferry is already established
and kept.

11.

The county commissioners or mayor, at the time of
granting any license to keep the same, shall ascertain
the price of ferriage for passengers, horses, mules and
cattle, sheep and hogs, and the several kinds of
carriages, (not allowing any thing for the baggage of
passengers), at every ferry by them licensed or let by
contract, and shall direct how many and what kind of