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thousand dollars for the purpose of improvements to the water supply
system of said City, such bonds being issued by authority of the Mayor,
Counselor and Aldermen of the City of Annapolis, but revenue for the
purpose of paying interest and principal of same to be dervied from the
income received for such water supply; it being the intention of this sec-
tion as to the bonds authorized hereunder that the total amount of water
bonds outstanding at any time after deducting the amount held in any
sinking funds for their redemption shall not exceed the sum of three
hundred thousand dollars, and that the total amount of bonds of the City
of Annapolis, other than the water bonds, outstanding at any time after
deducting therefrom the amount held in sinking funds for their redemption
shall not exceed five per cent, of the taxable basis of said City.

All bonds issued in pursuance and under the authority of this Act shall
be exempt from State, County and Municipal taxation.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 38. 1890, ch. 606. 1914 Code, sec. 41.
26. Whenever in the judgment of the Mayor, Counselor and Alder-
men of the City of Annapolis, it is deemed advisable to open, widen,
straighten or extend any street, lane or alley or any part thereof in said
city, and the owner or owners of the land or improvements thereon cannot
agree with said corporation upon the value of the property necessary for
said purpose; or if the owner or owners or any of them be an infant,
non compos mentis or for any other cause be legally incapable of con-
tracting, application may be made by said corporation to any justice of the
peace of Anne Arundel County, who shall issue his warrant directed to-
the Sheriff of said county, requiring him to summon a jury of twenty
inhabitants of said city not related to the owner or in anywise interested
in said land, nor connected with said corporation, to meet on the land to
be valued and condemned on a day named in said warrant, not less than
ten nor more than twenty days after issuing the same; and if at the time
and place any jurors summoned do not attend or shall be excused by the
Sheriff, then the Sheriff shall immediately summon as many jurors as may
be neessary to make twenty jurors, and from them each party or its, his,
her or their agent or attorney shall strike four jurors, or if either party
be not present in person or by agent or attorney, the Sheriff may strike off
four jurors, and from those remaining on the list shall select twelve to act
as the jury of inquest of damages; before the jury shall proceed to act the
Sheriff shall administer to each of the jurors an oath that will justly and
impartially value the damages which the owner of the property sought to
be condemned, will sustain by reason of the occupation of the land required
by the corporation for the purpose aforesaid, and also the benefit that shall
accrue to the owner or possessor of said ground or improvements by reason
of the opening, widening, straightening or extending said streets, lanes or
alleys; the jury shall then reduce their inquisition to writing, shall sign
and seal the same, and it shall then be returned by the said Sheriff to the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county; and if no sufficient cause to
the contrary be shown within thirty days from said return, the same shall
be confirmed by the Court and recorded in the Land Records of said