HARFORD COUNTY. 2977

with. Provided, that the notice to purchase shall be given to the said
Havre de Grace Water Company on or before December 1, 1922, and
that the appraisal of the plant and property of said Company be approved
by the Mayor and City Council. Provided, further however, that before
the said bonds shall be issued and the plant and property of said Com-
pany actually purchased, the question shall be submitted to the legal and
qualified voters of said city at the regular city election in May, 1923.
If a majority of the votes cast on said question be in favor of issuing said
bonds, then the bonds shall be issued in the manner and under the terms
and conditions as to form, maturity, redemption, sinking funds, interest
and other particulars, as provided in Section 304 of this Article for the
issue of bonds for the liquidation of the floating indebtedness of said City.
Water Co. v. Havre de Grace, 150 Md. 241.

1916, ch. 680, sec. 341.

337. Whenever the Mayor and City Council shall, by ordinance, order
the opening of a new street or alley, or the construction of any park,
public square, sewer, or system of sewers, water works, gas works, bridge,
wharf or other public improvements, the Mayor shall, by and with the
consent of the Council, appoint three of the legal voters and freeholders
of the City, not office holders, who, together with the Mayor and City
Attorney, shall constitute a commission to examine and report on the
proposed improvement; and if the said commission, or a majority of
them, shall certify to the Mayor and City Council that any land, build-
ing, stone, material or other property belonging to any person or corpora-
tion, or the removal thereof shall be necessary or convenient for the con-
struction of the proposed improvement, the Mayor and City Council may
acquire such property, or may agree with the owner or owners thereof
for th& purchase, use, occupation or removal of the same, and if they can-
not agree, or if the owner or owners, or any of them, be an infant, feme
covert, who is not possessed of the property to her sole and separate use,
or authorized to contract with reference to the same, non compos mentis,
or out of the City when such property may be wanted, or for any cause
be legally incapable of contracting," application may be made by the Mayor
to any Justice of the Peace of Harford County, who shall thereupon issue
his warrant," under his hand and seal, to the Sheriff of the county, requir-
ing him to summon a jury of twenty qualified voters of said city, above
the age of twenty-one years, and qualified to act as jurors under the laws
of this State, not related to the parties, nor in anywise interested, to meet
on the lands, or near the materials or property wanted, for the proposed
improvement on a day named in said warrant, not less than ten nor more
than twenty days after issuing the same; and if at the same time and
place any of the said jurors summoned do not attend, the said Sheriff
shall immediately summon as many persons similarly qualified as, together
with those in attendance, shall make up twenty, and from the panel each
party, his, her, its or their agent or attorney, or if either party be not