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each party or his agent, or if either be not present, in person or by agent,
the sheriff for him, may strike off four jurors, and the remaining jurors
shall act as the jury of inquest of damages.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 211. 1918 Code, sec. 269.

249. The sheriff, before the said jury shall proceed to act, shall ad-
minister to each juror an oath that he will justly and impartially value
the damages which the owner will sustain by the use or occupation of the
property required by said corporation.

P. L. L., 1888, AH. 11, sec. 212:. 1918 Code, sec. 270.

250. The jury shall summon such witnesses as the parties may re-
quire, and examine them on oath in relation to the value of the property
to be condemned, and they shall reduce the testimony, if any is taken by
them, to writing, and after the testimony is closed, and without any
unnecessary delay, and before proceeding to the examination of any other
claim, they shall ascertain and determine the compensation which ought
to be made by the said corporation to the party owning or being interested
In the property to be condemned.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 213. 1918 Code, sec. 271.

251. The jury shall reduce their inquisition to writing, and shall sign
and seal the same, and it shall then be returned by the sheriff to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for Frederick County, and shall be filed by said
clerk in said court.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 214. 1918 Code, sec. 272.

252. The said inquisition shall be confirmed by the said court, if no
sufficient cause to the contrary be shown, and when confirmed, shall be
recorded by said clerk at the expense of the corporation.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 215 1918 Code, sec. 273.

253. If said inquisition be set aside, the said court may direct an-
other inquisition in the manner hereinbefore prescribed.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 216. 1918 Code, sec. 274.

254. Every such inquisition shall describe the property taken and the
bounds of the land condemned, and the quantity or duration of the interest
in the same, condemned for the corporation; and such valuation when
paid or tendered to the owner of said property or his attorney shall entitle
said corporation to the estate and property so valued as fully as if the
same had been conveyed by the owner thereof.

P. L L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 213. 1918 Code, sec. 276.

255. If any person shall wilfully pollute said water by throwing any

dead animal or other impure substance in the same, or by swimming, bath-
ing or washing therein, or by washing clothes or the skins of dead animals,

or any other impure things therein, or by erecting any privy or other