among the stockholders, and also the time and place
when and where the same shall be payable, and shall
cause the same to be paid accordingly; and whereas,
it is necessary for the building of said bridge that
provisions should be made for the condemning a
quantity of land sufficient for the abutments and a
"toll-house, as well as for a road or roads to said
bridge, if it should be located beyond the present
roads, therefore it shall and may be lawful for the
said President and Directors, or a majority of them,
to agree with the owner or owners of any land on
which it is intended to abut the said bridge and
build a toll-house, or through which it may be neces-
sary to extend a road, for the purchase thereof; and
in case of a disagreement, or in case the owner or
owners thereof shall be a/erne covert, under age,?? non
compos mentis, or out of the State, on application to
a Justice of the Peace of Anne Arundel county, the
said Justice shall issue his warrant to the Sheriff of
the said county to summon a jury of twelve persons,
freeholders of said county, not related to either of
the parties nor in any manner interested, to meet on
the land to be valued, at a day to be expressed in
the warrant, not less than ten nor more than twenty
days after the date of said warrant; and the Sheriff,
upon receiving the said warrant, shall forthwith
summon the said jury, and when met, shall admin-
ister to each one of them an oath or affirmation that
he shall justly and impartially value the land re-
quired by the company according to the best of his
skill and judgment, and the inquisition thereupon
taken shall be signed by the jury, and returned by
the Sheriff to the clerk of the county, and unless
good cause be shown against the said inquisition, it
shall be affirmed by the Circuit Court of Anne
Arundel county, and their valuation shall be conclu-
sive on all persons, and shall, on demand, be paid for
"by said President and Managers to the owner or
owners of the land, or his or her legal representatives; and on payment or tender of payment
thereof, the said company shall be seized of such
lands as of an absolute estate in perpetuity; provided
that the damages assessed shall be fully paid, or ten-
dered to the parties entitled to receive the same, be-
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To condemn
land
Disagreem'nt
Sheriff to
summon jury
Inquisition to
be affirmed.
' Proviso.
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