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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

squares of said town as they may think proper,
and may grant to all persons and corporate bodies
the privilege of using said water in such manner
and upon such terms, and in such quantities as
they may think proper; they may insert and re-
pair, at the expense of the town, such number of
fire-plugs as they may deem necessary into the

Convey pipes
through street

pipes used to convey water through the streets of
said town, to be used only in case of fire, but free
from any charge therefor; they may convey said
water in such manner and by such route as they
may deem proper, and they may appropriate such
and so much land as may be necessary and proper
or the location and construction of any work or
building appurtenant to said water works, and any
spring that may be necessary for furnishing a fall
supply of water by furnishing a hydrant for the
use of any tenement or dwelling that had pre-
viously been supplied from said spring.

Compensation
for property
taken.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That if compensation
shall be required by any person whose rights may
be affected by the conveyance of said water or the
appropriation of land or springs, and such person
shall not be able to agree with said corporation
upon the amount of such compensation, or if the
owners or any of them be feme covert, under age, non
compos mentis, or out of the county, application may
he made to any Justice of the Peace for Washington
county, who shall thereupon issue his summons
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 interested
in the property to be valued, to meet on the land
or near the other property, to be valued on a day
named in said summons, not less than ten nor
more than twenty days after the issuing of the
same, and if at the time named in said summons

Sheriff to sum-
mon jury.

any of said 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 his agent, or if either
be not present in person or by agent, the Sheriff
for him may strike off four jurors, and the remain-
ing jurors shall act as the jury of inquest of dam-
ages, and the Sheriff shall, before the said jury
shall act, administer to each of them an oath that