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shall be proper or necessary for exercising all pow- ers, rights and privileges vested in the Company hereby incorporated, or in the said Managers, or for the performance of the duties required of them by this Act, and the said by-laws from time to time to alter or repeal, subject, nevertheless, to the re- visions of the stockholders at a general meeting, as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 8. And be it enacted, That the said Com- pany are hereby invested with all the rights and powers necessary for the construction of a Turn- pike Road from the Bridge over Little Pike Creek, near Daniel E. Buckey's Mill, through Middleburg to the square or cross road in Taneytown, Carroll County, and that the said Company may use the bed of the public road as new located from said Pipe Creek through Middleburg to Taneytown as aforesaid, or so much thereof and with such diver- gence as they may find necessary.	Powers,
Sec. 9. And be it enacted, That the President and Managers of said Company may agree with owners of land required for said road, and also the purchase of stone, gravel, earth, land or timber for said road ; and in all cases where they are unable to agree with the owner or owners, or should he or she be a feme covert or non compos mentis, or under age, the said President may apply to a Justice of the Peace of the county aforesaid, who shall there- upon issue his warrant to the Sheriff of the county aforesaid, commanding him. to summon twenty dis- interested persons, qualified to act as jurors in the Circuit Court, to meet upon the land, on a day to be named in said warrant, not less than five nor more than ten days after the issuing of the same ; after four are stricken off the panel by the Presi- dent or his agent, and four by the person inter- ested, or in his, her or their absence or refusal, by the said Sheriff, the Sheriff shall qualify the re- maining twelve persons, either by oath or affirma- tion, as the case may be, justly, truly and impar- tially to value the damages which maybe sustained by the owner or owners of such material or land	Condemn.
required by such Company, and the said jurors shall, after valuing said damages, return the same, under their hands and seals, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Carroll County, to be by him re-	Damages.