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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Cambridge to said property. If there be liens bearing on the
property condemned, the condemnation shall free the same of
such liens, and the lienors shall resort to the funds. In any
case, the Commissioners shall see to it that the damages
awarded by the jury are duly distributed, and to this end the

Distribution
of fund.

Commissioners may make a distribution of such fund, or they
may pay the fund into the Circuit Court for Dorchester County,
sitting as a court of equity, and by petition' pray said court to
distribute the fund, and the said court shall have jurisdiction
for making such distribution, and by its order may provide
therefor, and upon the payment of the fund into said court the
Commissioners shall be discharged from all further duty and
responsibility in regard thereto. The sheriff shall deliver to
the Commissioners not only the papers that are to be embraced
in the records, but also the summonses, copies of order of pub-
lication, and any papers that may be filed with the sheriff in
the course of the proceedings, to be preserved by the same until
the time for taking an appeal has passed.

Owners may
appeal.
Take an appeal
by giving
bond, etc.

Eighth. The Commissioners or the owners and persons
interested in the property, if aggrieved by the determination
of the jury set forth in the inquisition, may take an appeal to
the Circuit Court for Dorchester County, upon giving a bond
to the State of Maryland in the penalty of five hundred dollars,
with sureties, approved by the clerk of said court, conditioned
for the prosecution of said appeal, with effect and for the pay-
ment of the costs of the appeal in case the court should adjudge
the payment thereof by the appellants. Upon the taking of
the appeal the Commissioners shall transmit all the papers in
the case to the clerk of said court, and he shall docket a case
in the civil appeal docket of the next term thereof, and the
case shall stand for trial at the same, and shall be tried do
novo. Under an agreement in writing, signed by the parties
or their counsel, the case may be submitted to the court without
the intervention of a jury, and the court shall have full power
and authority to perform all the functions of a jury. In the
absence of such agreement the court shall order the sheriff to
summon twenty male residents of the said town, over twenty-
five years old, and not interested directly or indirectly in the
property to be condemned, and not related by blood or mar-
riage to any of the parties or persons owning said property.

Parties may
challenge
jury.

Either party to the appeal may challenge any of the twenty
jurors as not qualified to act, as above mentioned; and if any
juror challenged shall be held disqualified, another person
shall be summoned in his place. If no challenge is made or
any challenge made has been disposed of, a panel of twelve