KENT COUNTY. 3169

1906, ch. 227, sec. 20.

59. If, in opening or laying out any new street or alley, the said com-
missioners cannot agree with the owner or owners of any land or property
wanted for the purpose, for the purchase, use or occupation of the same,
or if the owner is a feme covert, under age, or non compos mentis, or out
of Kent county, application may be made to any justice of the peace for
said county, who shall thereupon issue his warrant, under his hand and
seal, directed to the sheriff of said county, requiring him to summon a
jury of twenty inhabitants of said county, of legal age, not related to the
parties, or in any wise interested, and from such panel of twenty jurors,
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 twelve
shall act as a jury of inquest of damages, to meet on the land or near the
property to be valued, on a day to be named in the warrant, not less than
ten or more than twenty days after the issuing of the same; that the
sheriff shall, before the jury shall proceed to act, administer an oath to
each that he will justly and impartially value the damages the owners will
sustain by the use or occupation of the property for the uses hereinafter
mentioned; that the jury, in estimating the damages, shall take into con-
sideration the benefits resulting to the owner from the opening and laying
out of said streets and alleys, through, along or near to the property of the
said owner; and 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 Kent County, and shall be confirmed
by the said court at its next session, if no sufficient cause to the contrary
be shown, and when confirmed shall be recorded by said clerk at the ex-
pense of the said commissioners; and if the said inquisition shall be set
aside by the Circuit Court for Kent County the said court may direct an-
other to be taken in the same manner as the first. That every inquisition
shall describe the property taken or the bounds of the land condemned,
and the quantity or duration of the interest of the same therein valued,
and such valuation, when paid or tendered to the owner or owners of the
property taken, or his legal representatives, shall entitle the said commis-
sioners to the estates, use and interest in the same so valued for the purpose
aforesaid, as fully as if the same had been conveyed by the owner or his
legal representatives.

1906, ch. 227, sec. 21.

60. The said commissioners shall have the power to license and regu-
late the sweeping of chimneys, and fix the rates thereof; to regulate the
sweeping of any chimney by neglect of which the said town may be en-
dangered.

1906, ch. 227, sec. 22.

61. The commissioners shall have the power to enact ordinances for the
prevention of cruelty to animals, and fix the penalties for the violation
thereof not inconsistent with the laws of this State.