Chapter IX, General Powers of City Corporation.

Section 1. Thirteenth, To establish or authorize, license, and regulate ferries to and from the city, or any place therein, or from one part of the city to another, and to regulate and prescribe from time to time the charges and prices for the transportation of persons and property thereon.

Chapter XVI, Ferries

Section 1. The council of said city may regulate and license ferries from such city or any place of landing therein to the opposite shore, or from one part of the city to another; and may require the payment of such reasonable sum for such license as to the council shall seem proper and may impose such reasonable terms and restrictions in relation to the keeping and management of such ferries, and the time, manner, and rate of carriage and transportation of persons and property as may be proper, and provide for the revocation of any such licenses and for the punishment, by proper fines and penalties of the violation of any ordinance prohibiting unlicensed ferries and regulating those established and licensed.