KINGHORN FERRY (see FORTH). This has been a public ferry from the earliest period of Scottish history. By an act of parliament passed in 1474, the freight for the portage of man and horse at Kinghorn was to be six pence Scotch, and for the man separately two pence Scotch. In 1551, parliament raised the freight for the portage of the man and horse to twelve pence Scotch, and for the man separately to six pence Scotch; and also provided that the ferrymen were never to charge more, under pain of death, and confiscation of all their goods. On the 20th of May 1800, the ferrymen were allowed by the justices at their quarter-sessions to charge passengers, of freight ninepence sterling for the best seats in their boats, and sixpence for the seats before the mast. At present (1836) the freights of passengers are as high as two shillings sterling for the best and eighteenpence for the inferior sittings on board the steamers navigating these ferries.