If any person shall be unreasonably detained, at any time, at any public ferry, toll-bridge, or causeway, by the carelessness, negligence, or wilfulness of the owner or keeper thereof, such owner or keeper, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 10, art. 7(36); 1857, ch. 64, art. 154; 1871, § 2617; 1880, § 2864; 1892, § 1138; 1906, § 1216; Hemingway's 1917, § 946; 1930, § 973; 1942, § 2203.
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