Each ferry owner or keeper in this State shall provide and keep attached to each end of his ferry flat a good and sufficient apron or, not having such aprons, shall keep, at each and every landing place, a good and sufficient abutment or inclined plane for the same. For default or neglect in so doing he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding ten dollars for every three days' continuance of such default, to be recovered in any court having jurisdiction. One half of any such fine shall go to the use of the State and the other half to the informer.