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in one newspaper printed and published in the county where the land
lies, if any newspaper be so printed and published; such notice shall
contain an accurate description of the land to which the United States
desire to obtain title, and shall state the names of the owners or sup-
posed owners thereof, and the place or supposed places of their resi-
dence, or that said places are unknown, and whether said owners or any
of them are feme covert, under age, or non compos mentis, if such facts
are known to the agent filing such petition, and the public uses to which
the United States desire to put the said land, and shall require all
persons interested in the said land to come forward on a day to be
specified in said notice, and file their objections, if any they have, to
the proposed condemnation of said land.

1904, art. 96, sec. 9. 1888, art. 9G, sec. 9. 1874, ch. 395, sec. 5.

9. At the time specified in said notice, or at the earliest convenient
day thereafter, it shall be the duty of the said court to proceed to hear
and determine upon said petition, and the objections, if any, filed
against the proposed condemnation; and the said court may order such
witnesses to be summoned, and hear such evidence as may be produced
before it by the respective parties, to show the necessity or impropriety
of the proposed condemnation; and if the said court shall determine
that condemnation of the said lands or other real property ought not
to be had, it shall dismiss said petition, at the cost of the United States;
but if it shall determine that condemnation of the land in said petition
described ought to be had by the United States, it shall pass an order
directing the clerk of said court, under his hand and the seal of said
court, to issue a warrant to the sheriff of the county wherein said land
lies, requiring him to summon a jury of twenty inhabitants of said
county not interested in the land to be valued to meet on or near the
land to be valued on a day named in said summons, not less than ten
nor more than twenty days after issuing the same; provided, five days'
notice thereof be given to the owner, reputed owner or agent of such
owner of the lands proposed to be condemned.

Ibid. sec. 10. 1888, art. 96, sec. 10. 1874, ch. 395, sec. 6.

10. If at the time named in such summons any of said jurors sum-
moned do not attend, the said sheriff shall immediately summon as
many jurors as may be necessary, with the jurors in attendance, to
make up the number of twenty, and from them each party or his
agent, or if either be not present in person or by agent, the sheriff for
said party may strike four jurors, and the remaining jurors shall act
as the jury of inquest of damages.

Ibid. sec. 11. 1888, art. 96, sec. 11. 1874, ch. 395, sec. 7.

11. Before the said jury shall proceed to act, the sheriff shall admin-
ister to each juror an oath that he will justly and impartially value the
damages which the owner will sustain by the use or permanent occupa-
tion of the land required by the United States.