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the valuation thereof by the said jury, he may apply to the said court at any
time before the end of the next court to that at which the proceedings "afore-
said shall be returned, who may, in a summary way, examine the said pro-
ceedings, and ratify or correct the same in any of the. particulars above
mentioned, and shall thereupon order and adjudge that the said land shall
thenceforward become the property of the said county forever, upon the
value thereof as aforesaid being paid to the said owner; which judgment and
proceeding shall be recorded; and the clerk of the said court shall transmit
a copy of such order and judgment of the said court, and a certificate of the
valuation of the said land condemned, to the county commissioners of the
same county, who shall assess and levy the same in the same manner as
other county expenses, and shall order such sum, when levied, to be paid
over to the person or persons entitled to receive the same as being interested
in such condemned land; and it shall thereupon be lawful for the said
county commissioners to direct the necessary buildings to be erected thereon
at the expense of the county, and the same shall be annually rented out by
them for the use and benefit of the said county.

An. Code, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 7. 1888, sec. 7. 1799, ch. 83, sec. 5.

7. In cases of infancy or other legal disability, it shall and may be
lawful for such infant or other person, or his or her legal representative,
whose land may be condemned under the provisions of the preceding sec-
tions, at any time within three years after the removal of such disability,
to repay to the county commissioners or other collector, the amount of the
valuation of such condemned land, if the same shall have been paid as above
directed, and also the real value at the time of such disability being removed
of any buildings or other improvements that may have been erected thereon
at the expense of the county, or if the same be refused, to make a tender
thereof; and such condemned property, with the improvements thereon,
shall revert to and become again the property of such person, as fully as the
same would have been if such condemnation had never taken place.

An. Code, sec. 8. 1904, sec. 8. 1888, sec, 8. 1799, ch. 83, sec. 3.

8. Whenever by the lawful alteration of an old road, or the opening of
a new road leading to any creek or river, a communication over and across
the same by means of a ferry shall, in the judgment of the county com-
missioners be deemed useful and necessary, in every such case it shall be
lawful for the said county commissioners to establish and regulate a public
ferry at every such place, and to license any approved person to keep the
same, and to ascertain the prices of ferriage thereat, and the number of
boats and hands to be employed, and to require bond with sufficient securi-
ties in the same manner as in cases of ferries heretofore established.

An. Code, sec. 9. 1904, sec. 9. 1888, sec. 9. 1791, ch. 65, sec. 2.

9. The county commissioners or mayor of the city of Baltimore may
rent a ferry belonging to the public, or contract with such person as they
may think proper, and at such price as they shall judge reasonable for the