858 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 587]

Court in which such petition may be filed may and shall pass an
order requiring the corporation against which such petition is
filed to show cause on or before a certain day not less than ten
nor more than twenty days from the service of notice upon it,
why the prayer of the petition should not be granted, and pro-
vided that a copy of said petition and such order is served upon
such corporation; and either upon default of such corporation
to show cause, or upon hearing of the matter, the said judge, if
he deems said road not to be in reasonable repair and such a
course proper and necessary, shall pass an order directing the
sheriff to summon a jury of not more than six persons, who shall
be freeholders, not interested in such roads, unless it be as the
users thereof, to meet on the part or parts of the road mentioned
in such petition, upon a day to be named in such order, and
said jurors being first sworn by such sheriff, true inquiry to
make as to the condition of the road complained of, shall view
the part or parts of the road complained of and determine upon
such view and the evidence of such witnesses as may be pro-
duced by the petitioners or the company as to the condition of
such road and the time such condition may have continued; and
an inquisition in writing specifying with particularity the places
and the character of such places in such road, if any, which
are not in the condition required by the terms of the law under
and by which such company was incorporated, shall be signed
and sealed by such jurors and returned by tie sheriff to the
clerk's office of the Circuit Court for the county or the clerk's
office of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, and if said
inquisition shall find said road is not in reasonably good condi'
tion and repair, or not of the width required by its charter,
any judge of said Court may, within ten days after the return
thereof, affirm the same and pass an order requiring said com'
pany to make proper and necessary repairs within a time not
exceeding two months, depending upon the season of the year,
it being discretionary with the judge passing said order as to the
terms, conditions and provisions thereof.

At or before the expiration of the time limited in said order
said corporation shall make a report and file the same with the
Clerk of the Circuit Court of the county or in the Clerk's office
of the Superior Court of Baltimore City, setting out with par-
ticularity the character of the repairs made and the costs thereof,
said report being sworn to by the President or other officer of
said corporation, and if the Court shall not be satisfied that its
order heretofore passed has been substantially and satisfactorily
complied with, then the Court shall order that tolls shall not be
charged by such company at the gates next to on either side of