720
Damage.
Summon a
jury to assess
To qualify.
Reduce
inquisition to
writing.
Set aside.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
enty, chapter two hundred and forty, entitled " An
Act to repeal section thirty-nine of article twenty of
the Code of Public Local Laws, entitled ' Talbot
county,' and to re-enact the same with amendments,"
to read as follows:
SUB-SEC. 1. If the damage sustained by any person
or persons, by making the improvements provided
for in the preceding section, cannot lie ascertained in
either of the modes therein provided, the said com-
missioners may make application to any Justice of
the Peace of said comity, -who shall thereupon issue
Ills warrant, under his hand and seal, directed to the
sheriff of said comity, requiring him to summon a
jury of twenty inhabitants, free-holders of said
county, not related nor in any wise interested, to
meet on the premises on a day named in said war-
rant, not less than ten nor more than twenty days
after the issuing of the same, and if, at said time and
place, any of said jurors summoned do not attend,
the said sheriff' shall immediately summon as many
jurors as may be necessary, with the jurors in attend-
ance, to furnish a panel of twenty jurors in attend-
ance, and from them each party, or its, his or their
agents, or if either be not present in person or by
agent, the sheriff', for him, her, it or them, may
strike oft" four jurors, and the remaining twelve shall
act as the jury of inquest of damages, and before they
act as such the said sheriff shall administer to each
of them an oath or affirmation, as the case may be,
that he will justly and impartially value the damage
which the owner or owners will sustain by the re-
moval of said house or houses, or obstructions; and
the said jury shall reduce their inquisition to writing,
and shall sign and seal the same, and it shall then be
returned by said sheriff to the Clerk of the Circuit
Court of the county, and be filed in his court, and
shall be confirmed by said court at its next session,
if no sufficient cause to the .contrary be shown, and
when confirmed, shall be recorded by said clerk at
the expense of said town; but if set aside, the said
court may direct another inquisition to be taken in
the manner above described, and such valuation,
when paid or tendered to the owner or owners of
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