CHAPTER 14.
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE MICHAEL MCCUE AND FRANK VERZANI TO ESTABLISH AND KEEP A FERRY ON THE MISSOURI RIVER.
Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:
Section 1. That Michael McCue and Frank Verzani, their heirs, executors, and assigns, shall have for the period of ten years from the passage of this act, the exclusive privilege of keeping a ferry on the Missouri river, for the purpose of crossing the same at the place hereinafter designated.
Sect. 2. That such exclusive right to keep such ferry shall extend a distance of three miles above the point where the line between lots Nos. 3 and 4, in section eight, in township No. ninety-one, north of range No. fifty-one west of the fifth principal meridian, intersects said river, and a like distance of three miles below said point; and it shall be unlawful for any other person or persons to keep a ferry within said limits.
Sect. 3. The owners of said ferry shall, on or before the first day of July, A. D. 1862, place at said ferry for the use of the same, a good and sufficient ferry-boat, and shall, from sunrise in the morning until sunset in the evening, when the navigation of said river is not dangerous, be prepared to cross all persons and their property, with the least possible delay.
Sect. 4. The owners of said ferry shall be allowed the following rates of ferriage such ferry:
For each pair of horses, mules, or oxen, and wagon, $1 00
For each additional pair of horses, mules, or oxen, 25
For horse or mule, and buggy, 75
For led horse, or mule, 20
For loose cattle, per head, 10
For sheep and hogs, per head, 05
For footman, 10
For cwt. of freight, 10
For M. feet of lumber, 1 00
