THOMAS SWANN, ESQUIRE. GOVERNOR. 427

is hereby authorized to borrow money to the amount not exceeding two hundred and fifty thou- sand dollars, the interest thereon to be paid semi- annual ly, and to issue their bonds therefor the sum not more than two hundred and fifty thousapd dollars, and to secure the payment of said bonds and their interest by executing and delivering to such trustee or trustees as they may select a mort- gage of all or any part of the road property, rights, liberties and franchises of the said Com- pany in the State of Maryland.
Sec. 14. And be it enacted, That the President and Directors of said Company or a majority of them or their agents may agree with the owner or owners of any lands, earth, timber, gravel or other materials for the construction or repairs of any part of said road or its works for the purpose, purchase or use or occupation of the same, and in case they cannot agree, or if the owner or owners or any of them be a feme covert, under age, non compos mentis, or out of the county in which the property wanted may be when such land and ma- terial may be needed, on application to a Justice of the Peace of such county who shall issue his warrant under his hand and seal to the Sheriff of said county requiring him to summon a jury of	Condemn.
twenty inhabitants of said county not related to said owner or owners nor in any wise interested in the premises, to meet on the land to be valued on a day to be specified in said warrant not less than ten nor more than thirty days after issuing the same, and in case any of the jurors aforesaid do not attend the Sheriff shall instanter summon as many as may be necessary with the jurors in at- tendance, and from them each party, his, her or their agent, and if either be not present in person or by agent, the Sheriff may strike off four jurors for each of the absent parties, and the remaining twelve shall act as the jury of inquest or damages, and before they act as such the Sheriff shall ad- minister to each of them an oath or affirmation, as the case may be, that he will justly and impar- tially value the damages and benefits which the owner or owners of such lands will sustain by the use or occupation of the same required by the Company, and if required by the party or parties whose lands are to be affected by the proceedings	Jurors