of the land or materials or other property, and not
for the land or materials taken; and after having
made a fair and just offset of the advantages and
disadvantages arising from the construction of the
railroad, they shall estimate and determine what
amount of damages has been or may be sustained by
the owner or owners respectively, and the said jury
shall reduce their inquisition to writing, and sign and
seal the same, and it shall then be returned, if the pro-
perty or materials be in the City of Baltimore, to the
Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore city, and
if in any county, to the Clerk of the Circuit Court
of such county, and shall be filed by said Clerk in
his office, and shall he confirmed by such Court, at
the next term or session, if no sufficient cause to
the contrary be shown, and when confirmed shall be
recorded by said Clerk at the expense of the com-
pany; but if the same be set aside, the Court shall
direct another inquisition to be taken in the manner
above described, and the inquisition shall, in all
cases, describe the property taken, or the bounds of
the land condemned, and the duration or quality of
the interest in the same, valued for the company, and
such valuation, when paid or tendered to the owner
or owners of the property, his, her, its or their legal
representatives, shall entitle the said company to the
estate and interest thus valued, as if it had been
legally conveyed by the owner or owners of the
same; and the said valuation, if not received when
paid or tendered, may at any time thereafter be
received without costs from said company by the
owner or owners, his, her, its or their legal represen-
tatives, or those by them duly constituted to receive
the same; and the Sheriff shall keep the said jury
together 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 Justice of the Peace
shall, within five days thereafter, 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 hereinbefore provided; and
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Damages-
Confirmed
Set aside.
Estate and
interest.
Digagreem't.
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