THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1835.

ed for the construction and repair of the principal

CHAP. 338.

stem of the rail road before mentioned herein.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the president and

May bargain with

directors of said company, or a majority of them, or

persons

any person by them authorised, may agree with the

owner or owners of any land, earth, timber, gravel,

stone or other materials which may be wanted for the

construction or repair of any of said roads, or of any

of their works, for the purchase or use of the same;

and if they cannot agree, or if the owner or owners, on

In case of disagree-

any of them, be a femme coverte, or minor, or non

ment, how to pro-ceed

compos mentis, or out of the county in which the pro-

perty wanted may be or lie, application may be made

to any justice of the peace of such county, who shall

thereupon issue his warrant, under hand and seal, di-

rected to the sheriff of such county, requiring him to

summon a jury of eighteen inhabitants of such county,

not related to any of the parties, nor in any wise inter-

ested, to meet on or near the land or other property to

be valued, on a day named in the warrant, not less

than ten nor more than twenty days after the issuing

of the warrant, as a jury of inquest of damages, and

Jury of inquest

twelve or more of the persons so summoned and attend-

ing shall constitute such jury; and before they act as

Oath

such, the sheriff shall administer to each of them, an

oath, or affirmation, that he will justly and impartial-

ly value the land, or other property, required for the

use of the Eastern Shore Rail Road company, and all

damages the owner thereof will sustain by reason of

the occupation of such property by the said company,

that he will also justly and impartially estimate the be-

nefit and advantage which will result to the ov,ner of

such property, from the construction of the Eastern

Shore Rail Road and its works, and regulate his ver-

diet of damages thereby and return a true inquisition,

Return of Inquisi-tion

and the jury shall reduce their inquisition to writing,

and shall sign and seal the same, and in it shall des-

cribe the property valued; and if land, by metes and

bounds, and the time or term for which such property

is required by the company, whether in perpetuity or

for a limited time, and what time; and the sheriff shall

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