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4- That one of tliese boats and a pinnace must be
constantly at each of the above-mentioned ferries, to
serve the lieges, and obliged to cross instantly when
ordered, at the present fares, as herein after ex-
pressed. And it is further enacted, that no double
or additional freights be exigible by the boatmen for
crossing under cloud of night, or although the boat-
men, from stress of weather, and the wind being
contrary, should be obliged to land at Ferry-port-
on-Craig, or Balmerino, on the Fife side, or Droughty
Castle on the Angus side, the hardships being the
same to the passengers as the boat's crew: and it is^.
likewise enacted, that a boat or pinnace muse always
be stationed at low-water mark.
5, It is enacted that the boats belonging to the .
respective ferries of Woodhaven, Newport, Ferry-
port- on-Craig, Dundee, and Broughty Cattle, be
the only boats which have a right to their turn at
the said ferries ; and all other boats and pinnaces
must, in an hour and a halfj set out, in order to ^
return to their own. ferries, except in the case of
there being no boats at the ferry to which they be-
long, and then they are obhged to set out for the
said ferry without loss of time : that if any boat take
in passengers, or goods, at the ferry where they have
no right to their turn, they are obliged to account
for the freight of such passengers and goods to the
birth-boat where such goods or passengers are taken
in : that a boat is obliged to depart at high-water,
and another at half tide, if the wind is westerly, and
at half ebb, if the wind is easterly, and that in the
event of a single passenger offering, at the ordinary
fare of such passenger : that the birth-boat must, on
no account, be hired, or freighted, but must wait
the above periods, for the accommodation of p^-s-
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