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county, but if set aside, or if the jury fail to agree after having been kept
together a reasonable time, in the judgment of the Sheriff, and be dis-
charged, then the Sheriff, at the instance of said corporation, without
further warrant, shall common another jury of twenty inhabitants as afore-
said, and the same proceedings shall be had as hereinbefore provided,
and so on until the verdict or inquisition shall be confirmed by the Court;
the expenses of the inquisition and return including a per diem of one
dollar and fifty cents to each juror shall be paid by the corporation; the
inquisition shall describe the property taken, or the bounds of the land
condemned, and the quality or duration of the interest, the amount of
damages awarded and benefits deducted, if any, in the same valued for the
corporation; and such valuation, after deducting benefits when paid, or
tendered to the owner of said property or the party entitled to the same,
or paid into Court, after the confirmation of said inquisition shall entitle
the corporation to the estate and interest in the same thus valued, as fully
as if it had been conveyed by the owner of the same; and the valuation
if not received when tendered, may at any time thereafter be received from
said corporation, but without interest; the same proceedings may be had
by said corporation for assessing benefits to property owners on the line
or lines of such streets, lanes or alleys, or parts thereof opened, ex-
tended, straightened or widened as herein provided, and the inquisition
of the jury when confirmed shall be a lien for the amount thereof on the
respective properties so benefited, and the payment thereof enforced by
execution issued out of the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County, as
in cases of judgments in said court; the oath to be administered by the
Sheriff in such cases shall be, to faithfully and impartially assess such
benefits as may accrue to said property owners by the opening, extending,
straightening or widening of such streets, lanes, alleys or parts of the
same.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 39. 1914 Code, sec. 42.

27. The Mayor may take the acknowledgment of any deed or instru-
ment of writing required to be acknowledged, and receive therefor the
sum of fifty cents; all by-laws and ordinances of the said corporation
shall be signed by the Mayor; during the first ten days in the month of
January of each and every year, he shall cause to be prepared and printed
for the information of the citizens, a statement of the finances of the said
corporation; he may call upon any officer of the city, entrusted with the
receipt and expenditure of public money, for a statement of his accounts
as often as he may deem it necessary; and he shall see that the ordinances
are duly and faithfully executed.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 2, sec. 40. 1914 Code, sec. 43.

28. The Mayor, Counselor and Aldermen may repair any private
wharves belonging to persons who shall refuse, after two months' notice,
to repair the same, and they may receive the wharfage of such wharves
until such repairs are paid for, or until the owners thereof shall pay the
same.