598 EMINENT DOMAIN. [ART. 33A

and, upon the application of any party to said suit, the Court shall
forthwith set an early date to be especially fixed by it, not less than
ten nor more than twenty days from the date of said application, for
the trial of the issues of law and fact raised in said case, and the ascer-
tainment of the compensation or damages to be awarded to the defend-
ants in case it shall be determined that the land sought by the peti-
tioner shall be condemned.

1912, ch. 117. 1914, ch. 463, sec. 7.

6. If the date so fixed by said Court shall occur during the regular
sittings of any term of said Court, at which a regular jury is in attend-
ance upon said Court, or can be procured to attend, the said case shall
be heard before a jury selected from such regular panel, but if the
date for said trial set by the Court shall occur at a time when the
regular jury drawn for that term has been discharged and cannot be
reassembled under the law, then in such case the Court shall forthwith
select twenty (20) good and lawful men from the names upon the
regular jury list of the last Jury Term of the Court, to be summoned
by the sheriff, to attend as jurors in said Court at said time as fixed by
the Court for the trial of said case, and the summoning of said jurors
and the empanelling of a jury of twelve men from said regular panel
or from said list of jurors so summoned by the Sheriff, shall proceed as
far as practicable in accordance with the rules and practice obtaining
in said Court for the selection and empanelling of jurors in other civil
cases.

See notes to section 1.

1912, ch. 117. 1914, ch. 463, sec. 8.

7. As soon as said jury is selected as aforesaid, the Jurors shall be
sworn by the Clerk in the usual manner in civil cases, and in addition
to the usual oath in such cases, they shall be sworn to justly and impar-
tially value the damages which the defendant owner or owners will
sustain by the taking, use and occupation of the property described
in the petition, by the petitioner, for the purposes therein set out, and
after being so selected and sworn, the Court shall direct the sheriff to
take the jury upon the ground and premises sought to be condemned,
to view the same in the usual way in condemnation cases, upon which
excursion to view said property and premises, the parties to the suit,
their attorneys, engineer or other representative shall have the right to
attend with said sheriff and jury. The engineer or other representa-
tive of either party shall upon said view, point out to the jury the prop-,
erty sought to be condemned, and the metes and bounds thereof, and
shall show the jury any adjacent property of the owners; but upon said
view no party to the proceedings, or his attorney, or any other party,
except as aforesaid, shall be permitted to make any statement or remark
to the jury or in their presence relative to said property.