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74. If the said corporation cannot agree with said owners, or
if the owner or owners, or any of them, be a feme covert, under
age, or non compos mentis, or out of the county in which the
property wanted may lie, when such land or material may be
wanted, application may be made to any justice of the peace of
such county, who shall thereupon issue his warrant under his
hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of said county, requiring
him to summon a jury of twenty inhabitants of said county,
not related or in any wise interested, to meet on the lands, or
near to the other property or materials to be valued, on a day
named in said warrant, not less than ten nor more than twenty
days after issuing of the same.

75. If at said time and place, any jurors summoned do not
attend, the sheriff shall immediately summon as many jurors as
may be necessary with the jurors in attendance, and from them
each party or its, his or their agent, or if either be not present
in person or by agent, the sheriff for him, it, or them, may strike
off four jurors, and the remaining twelve shall act as the jury
of inquest of damages.

76. The sheriff shall, before they proceed to act as such,
administer to each of said jury an oath that he will justly and
impartially value the damages which the owner will sustain by
reason of the occupation of the said land or materials required
by the company.

77. The 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, or
the clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore city, as the case
may be, and shall be confirmed by the said court at its next ses-
sion, if no sufficient cause to the contrary be shown, and when
confirmed, shall be recorded by said clerk at the expense of said
company, but if set aside the said court may direct another in-
quisition to be taken in the manner above prescribed.

78. Such inquisition shall describe the property taken, or the
bounds of the land condemned, and the quantity or duration of
the interest in the same valued for the company, and such valua-
tion, when paid or tendered to the owner of said property, or
his legal representatives, 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 of the same; and the valuation,