2978 ARTICLE 13.

present in person or by agent, or being present in person or by agent,
refuse to strike, the said Sheriff for him, her or them may strike off four
persons, and the remaining twelve shall act as the jury of inquest of dam-
ages; and to each, before he acts as juror, the said Sheriff shall admin-
ister an oath or affirmation that he will justly and impartially value the
damage which the owner or owners will sustain by the use and occupation
of the property required by the Mayor and City Council, and assess the
benefits to be derived by the owner thereof from the proposed improve-
ment, and the said jury shall reduce their inquisition to writing and
sign and seal the same; and it then shall be returned by the said Sheriff
to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford County, and to be filed by
said Clerk in his office, and shall be confirmed by said Court if no suffi-
cient cause to the contrary be shown within thirty days after the time of
filing the same, and when confirmed shall be recorded by said Clerk at
the expense of the Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace; but if
the same be set aside, the said Court shall direct another inquisition to
be taken in the manner above described; and in case the second or any

ether inquisition which is confirmed by the Court shall not award to the
land owner a larger amount of damages than was awarded by the first
inquisition, the Court may, in its discretion, order the costs of the second

or other inquisitions to be paid by the owner or owners of said land or
materials condemned; and the inquisition shall in all cases describe the
property taken or the bounds of the land condemned, and the quality or

duration of the interest in the same, and the valuation the jury have put
upon it, and the valuation the jury have put upon the benefit which the
owner of the condemned land will derive from the proposed improvement,
and the valuation of the land, less the valuation of the benefits, when paid

or tendered to the owner or owners of the property, his, her, or their
legal representatives, shall entitle the Mayor and City Council of Havre
de Grace to the estate and interest in the same thus valued as if it had
been legally conveyed by the owner or owners of the same, and the valua-
tion, if not received when tendered, may at any time thereafter be re-
ceived without cost from the Mayor and City Council by the owner or

owners, his, her, or their legal representatives, and the said valuation and
costs and other expenses of said condemnation shall be paid from the
Treasury of the City, and the said Sheriff shall keep said jury together
for a reasonable time until they shall agree upon and sign and seal said
inquisition; and in case it shall so happen that the jury cannot agree

after being kept together as aforesaid, the said Sheriff may, in his dis-
cretion, discharge the said jury, and without further warrant from a Jus-
tice of the Peace shall within five days thereafter summon another jury

of twenty inhabitants, as aforesaid, not upon the former jury; and the
said proceedings shall be had in all respects, as hereinbefore provided,

and in case of a second or other disagreement of the jury, the same pro-
ceedings shall be had until a verdict of inquisition shall be made and

returned as aforesaid.