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FERRIES. 131

For each one horse, or mule, and buggy; with driver, seventy-five cents.

For each led horse or mule, twenty-five cents.

For loose cattle, per head, twenty cents.

For each footman, fifteen cents.

For sheep and hogs, per head, ten cents.

For each hundred weight of merchandise, ten cents.

For each thousand feet of lumber, one dollar.

Sec. 4. The said grantees, shall, within six months after the passage of this act, file or cause to be filed in the office of register of deeds, in the county of Cole, a bond to said register, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars, with one or more sureties, to be approved by said register of deeds, conditioned that they will fulfill all the duties imposed upon them by the provisions of this act, and in case of a failure or neglect to do so, they shall forfeit all the benefits that have accrued to them by this act.

Sec. 5. Any persons who shall sustain any injury from the negligence or default of said grantees or the ferryman in their employ, may have a remedy by a civil action upon the bond required in this act.

Sec. 6. This act shall be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, January 18th, 1864.

CHAPTER LVI.

AN ACT GRANTING TO J. B. GREENWAY AND HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS, THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND MAINTAIN A FERRY ON THE DAKOTA RIVER.

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Dakota:

Saction 1. That J. B. Greenway, his heirs and assigns, shall have the exclusive right and privilege for the period of