If any navigable stream or lake shall form a portion of the boundary of any county, so that one bank is in one county and the other is in a different county at the place where it is proposed to erect a ferry, a license shall be had from the county court for the ferry on the counties' respective banks or shores.Rev. Stat., ch. 62, § 5; C. & M. Dig., § 4697; Pope's Dig., § 5796; A.S.A. 1947, § 76-1705.
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