The board of supervisors may establish and license toll ferries, and fix the toll; and where the public convenience and travel justifies it, may establish and maintain free ferries, or in its discretion toll ferries at public expense; and the board of supervisors shall fix the salary of the ferryman or ferrymen to run such free or toll ferry. The board of supervisors may make allowance to pay for ferry boats and things to run same, and may establish ferries over rivers or other watercourses where public road is parallel with and on one bank of the river or watercourse, and public or private roads on the opposite bank.
Structure Mississippi Code
Title 65 - Highways, Bridges and Ferries
Chapter 27 - Ferries; General Provisions
§ 65-27-1. Toll ferries and free ferries
§ 65-27-3. Right of owner of the soil
§ 65-27-5. Bond required of the keeper of a toll ferry
§ 65-27-7. Bond may be sued on
§ 65-27-9. Penalties, forfeitures, and damages recovered
§ 65-27-11. Purchase of competing ferry
§ 65-27-13. Equipment for safe transportation by ferry
§ 65-27-15. Duties of ferrymen
§ 65-27-17. Table of rates of tolls kept exposed to view