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Set aside
Valuation
not received.
Duty of
Sheriff
Second dis-
agreement.
Completion
of railroad.
Repealed.
Repeal not
operative.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
recorded by the said Clerk at the expense of the
Company: but if the same be set aside, the Court
shall direct another inquisition to he taken in the
manner above described, and the inquisition shall, in
all cases, describe the land or other property taken, 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 pro-
perty, his, her, its, or their legal representatives, shall
entitle the said Company to the estate or interest
thus valued, as if it had been legally conveyed by the
owner or owners of the same; and the said valua-
tion, if not received when tendered, may, at any
time thereafter, be received without coats from said
Company by the owner or owners, or those entitled
to claim under him, her, it, or them, and the Sheriff
shall keep the said jury together a reasonable time,
until they shall agree upon and sign and seal their
inquisition; and in case it shall so happen that the
jury cannot agree, after being kept together as afore-
said, the Sheriff may, in his discretion, discharge
them, and, without any further warrant, he shall,
within five days thereafter, summon another jury of
twenty inhabitants, as aforesaid, not related or in
any wise interested, and not on the former jury, and
the same proceedings shall be had in all respects as
is hereinbefore provided; and in case of a second or
other disagreement, the same proceedings shall be
had, in all respects, as is hereinbefore provided, until
a verdict or inquisition shall he made or returned as
aforesaid.
SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the time for the
completion of the said railroad be and the same is
hereby extended until the first day* March, eighteen
hundred and seventy-four.
SEC. 8. And be it enacted. That all parts of Acts
inconsistent herewith, be and the same are hereby
repealed, but the passage of this Act shall not affect
any inquisitions already had or commenced, 'which.
shall be proceeded with under any exceptions filed,
and in all other respects, as though this Act had not
been passed, the repeal not being operative in respect
to them.
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