JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

upon it, and the valuation the jury have put upon the benefit
which the owner of the condemned land will derive from
the proposed improvement, and the valuation of the land,
less the valuation of the benefits, when paid or tendered to
the owner or owners of the property, his, her or their legal
representatives, shall entitle the Mayor and City Council of
Havre de Grace to the estate and interest in the same thus
valued as if it had been legally conveyed by the owner or
owners of the same, and the valuation, if not received when
tendered, may at any time thereafter be received without
costs from the Mayor and City Council by the owner or own-
ers, his, her or their legal representatives, and the said valua-
tion and the costs and other expenses of said condemnation
shall be paid out of the treasury of the city, and the said
sheriff shall keep said jury together for a reasonable time until

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they shall agree upon and sign and seal said inquisition; and
in case it shall so happen that the jury cannot agree after
being kept together as aforesaid, the said sheriff may, in his
discretion, discharge the said jury, and without further warrant
from a justice of the peace shall within five days thereafter
summon another jury of twenty inhabitants, as aforesaid, not
upon the former jury; and the same proceedings shall be had
in all respects as hereinafter provided, and in case of a second
or other disagreement of the jury the same proceedings shall
be had until a verdict of inquisition shall be made and returned
as aforesaid.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all laws or parts of laws
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby
repealed.

Proviso if jury
cannot agree.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That this Act shall not take
effect until it shall have been submitted to a vote of the duly
registered voters of Havre de Grace, and shall have been
approved by a majority of the votes cast at an election to be
held on Monday, the i4th day of May, in the year 1900, and
to be conducted in the mode prescribed by the existing charter
of Havre de Grace, and the result of which vote shall be
canvassed and antiounced by the Mayor and City Council of
Havre de Grace.

Approved April 7, 1900.

CHAPTER 341.
AN ACT to repeal Chapter ninety -one of the Acts of eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-four, entitled an "Act to Incor-
porate the Town of Mt. Airy, in Carroll and Frederick

Shall be
submitted to
the voters.