THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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1835.
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may provide for the appraisment aforesaid by jury
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CHAP. 505.
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trial, and order jurors to be summoned in number and
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Appraisement by
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according to the rules practised in jury trials in actions
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jury
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in said court, and may pass such orders as to the peri-
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od and conduct of such trial as to the court may s'eem
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proper, and exercise the same discretion as to new
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trials, after verdict or verdicts in the premises as is
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exercised in actions aforesaid, and the court upon final
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Filial verdict
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verdict of the jury on the premises, shall confirm the
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said verdict for such amount of damages as thereby
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shall be found, with costs of the proceedings and reason-
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able expenses to be paid by the State; and it shall be
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If infant is inter-
ested
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the duty of the court, where an infant shall appear by
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Duty of court
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the return aforesaid or otherwise, to be interested in
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said land or materials, with or without objection afore-
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said, and with or without an application to that effect,
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to have the appraisment reviewed as aforesaid by a
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jury trial in manner aforesaid, and to confirm the final
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verdict as aforesaid in the premises, for such amount of
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damages as it shall find, with costs and expenses afore-
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said; and the said superintendent is also hereby em-
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Power of to con-
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powered to contract and agree with the owner or owners
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tract
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of any lands adjoining or near to any gate, for the
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right and permission to construct or interpose any ob-
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structions upon such lands as may be found necessary
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to secure such gates against evasion; and said superin-
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tendant is hereby authorised to pay a reasonable sum
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for such privileges, or grant therefor the use of said
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road, free of tolls, to the owner or occupant of such
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lands.
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SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the superintendent
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Report
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of said road, report regularly to the commissioners of
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Allegany county, at each of their stated meetings, a
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full statement of the condition of said road, the amount
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of tolls received, and the amount expended on account
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of said road, and what balance, if any in hand; and it
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shall be the duty of the said commissioners, to trans-
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mit said reports immediately to the treasurer of the
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Western Shore, to be submitted by him to the legisla-
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ture.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That all such parts of the
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Repeal
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original act, to which this is a supplement, as are in-
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