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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1870
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ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 901

Company ; and such valuation, when paid or
tendered to the owner or owners of the prop-
erty, his, her, or their legal representatives,
shall entitle the said Company to the estate
and interest in the same thus valued, as if it
had been legally conveyed by the owner or own-
ers of the same, and the valuation, if not re-

 

ceived when tendered, may at any time thereafter,
be received without costs from said Company, by
the owner or owners, his, her or their legal repre-
sentatives ; and the sheriff shall keep the said jury
together for a reasonable 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 his discretion, discharge the said
jury, and without any further warrant from a Jus-
tice of the Peace, shall within five days thereafter,

Payment ten-
dered.

summon another jury of twenty inhabitants, as
aforesaid, not upon the former jury, and the same
proceedings shall be had in all respects, as in here-
inbefore provided ; and in case of a second or other
disagreement of the jury, the same proceedings
shall be had until a verdict or inquisition shall be
made and returned as aforesaid.
Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That whenever any
Railroad Company heretofore incorporated, or
which may hereafter be incorporated, shall find it
necessary for the purpose of avoiding annoyance
to public travel, or dangerous or difficult curves or
grades, or unsafe or unsubstantial grounds or

Summon an-
other jury.

foundations, or for ' other reasonable causes, to
change the location or grade of any portion of their
road, whether heretofore made or hereafter to be
made, such Railroad Companies shall be, and are
hereby authorized to make such changes of grade
and location, not departing from the general route
prescribed in the certificate of such Company; and
for the purpose of making any such change in the
location and grades of any such road, as aforesaid
such Company shall have all the rights, powers
and privileges to enter upon and take and appro:

Change road.

priate such lands, and make surveys necessary to
effect such changes and grades upon the same
terms, and be subject to the same obligations,
rules and regulations as are prescribed by law, and
shall also be liable, in damages, when any have

Make survey.

 

 

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