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may be sustained by the said owner or owners re-
spectively, and make a report thereof accordingly,
and the said jury shall reduce their inquisition to
writing, and shall sign and seal the same; and
it shall then be returned by the said Sheriff to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of his County, and by
such Clerk filed in his Court, and shall be con-
finned by said Court at its next session if no suffi-
cient cause to the contrary be shown, and when
confirmed shall be recorded by the said Clerk, but
if set. aside, the said Court may direct another in-
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Valuation.
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quisition to take place in the manner before des-
cribed, whose decision shall, be returned as before
directed, and such valuation, when paid or ten-
dered to the owner or owners of said property, or
his, her or their legal attorney, agent, representa-
tive or guardian, shall entitle the said Company to
the estate and interest in the same thus valued, as
fully as if it had been conveyed by the owner or
owners of the same ; and the said valuation, if not
received when tendered, may at any time there-
alter be received from the said Company by the
said owner or owners, his, her, or their legal re-
presentatives or guardian, provided that no private
property shall be taken by the said Company for
the use of said road, station, depots, sidings, or
any of its works, without just compensation as
agreed upon by the said parties, or awarded by
the jury, being first paid or tendered to the party
entitled to such compensation. And that the
Sheriff shall keep the said jury together for a rea-
sonable time until they shall agree upon and sign
and seal the said inquisition, and in case it shall
so happen that the jury cannot agree, after being
kept together as aforesaid, the Sheriff may, in hie
discretion, discharge the said jury, and without
any further warrant from a Justice of the Peace,
shall, within five days thereafter, summon another
jury of twenty disinterested persons as aforesaid ;
and the same proceedings shall be had in all re-
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In force.
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spects as is hereinbefore provided, and in case of a
second or other disagreement of the jury, the same
proceedings shall be had until a verdict or inqui-
sition shall be made and returned as aforesaid,
and that this Act shall take effect from its passage.
Approved February 26, 1868.
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