If any person shall keep any ferry over any navigable stream, for which he or she shall charge any person any money or any other valuable thing, without complying with the provisions of this chapter in relation to obtaining license, he or she shall forfeit and pay to every other person having a licensed ferry on the same stream or lake in the same county five dollars ($5.00) for every person so ferried, and the same sum for every vehicle or other article so transported which may be the subject of a separate charge is to be sued for and recovered before any justice of the peace in the county by civil action founded on this statute, with the costs of prosecution.Rev. Stat., ch. 62, § 19; C. & M. Dig., § 4720; Pope's Dig., § 5819; A.S.A. 1947, § 76-1725.
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