PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 237

3. Upon the filing of said petition, the Court, or any judge
thereof, shall pass an order directing a summons to issue for the
defendants, to be served in the same manner as summons in
actions at law, and returned by some day to be named in said
order, not less than ten days nor more than twenty days from
the day of the filing of said petition. If any defendant be not
summoned before the return day of the said summons, the sum-
mons may be renewed from time to time, as often as the Court,
in its discretion, may think proper; or, if any defendant is non-
resident or unknown or returned non est twice successively, the
Court shall order the sheriff to set up a copy of the summons for
such defendant upon the property and shall order a notice to be
published once a week for four successive weeks, in a paper
published in the county where such property is situated, and
also in one daily newspaper published in the City of Baltimore,
if the proceedings be in a county; and if the proceedings be in
Baltimore City, in two daily newspapers published in said city;
requiring such defendant to appear in the said court on or
before a certain day to be named in the order, said day to be
not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days from the
date of the first publication of said order, and show cause why
said property, or such defendants' interest therein, should not
be condemned as prayed in the petition.

4. Every defendant summoned shall within fifteen days
after the return day to which he is summoned, and every defend-
ant appearing shall within fifteen days after such appearance
file an answer showing cause, if any he has, why the property
mentioned in the petition or said defendant's interest therein,
should not be condemned as prayed. And every defendant
against whom publication has been duly made, as hereinabove
provided, shall file such an answer within the time limited in
such order of publication.

The Court shall have power for good cause shown to extend
the time for answering. In default of answer within the time
hereinabove provided, or any extension thereof which may have
been granted by the Court, the Court shall enter judgment
that the said property, or the interest therein of the defendant
or defendants so in default, be condemned.

The Court shall also render the same judgment upon the fil-
ing of an answer by any defendant or defendants, if such
answer does not deny the right of the petitioner to have the
property condemned. In the event of an answer being filed
denying the right of the petitioner to have the property con-
demned, the Court shall hear the question thus raised as to the
right of the petitioner to condemn the property at an early date,