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same, and the valuation, if not received when tendered, may at any time
thereafter be received without cost from the Mayor and Council by owner
or owners, his, her or their legal representatives, and the said valuation
and the cost and other expenses of said condemnation shall be paid from
the treasury of the town, 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 discretion,
discharge the said jury, and without further warrant from a justice of
the peace, shall within five days thereafter, summon another jury of twenty
inhabitants as aforesaid, not upon the former jury, and proceedings shall
be had in all respects as hereinbefore provided; and in case of a second
or other disagreement of the jury the same proceedings shall be had until
a verdict of inquisition shall be made and returned as aforesaid; provided,
that nothing in this Act shall be held to authorize the condemnation of the
plant or property of any electric light, gas, telephone, telegraph or water
company now existing in the town of Easton.

1906, ch. 458, sec. 97L.

208. All fines and forfeitures herein imposed for violation of the char-
ter of the town of Easton, or which may be hereafter imposed therefor
by any law of this State, and all fines, penalties and forfeitures which are
now or may be hereafter lawfully imposed by any ordinance of said town,
may be recovered before the police justice for Easton District of Talbot
county; and upon complaint made before him for the violation of any
such law or ordinance, the said police justice shall issue process in the
name of the Mayor and Council of Easton for the recovery of the fine,
penalty or forfeiture imposed for the violation of such law or ordinance
against the party offending, and may hear and determine the matter and
render judgment therein as in any case arising under the law of this
State, and shall receive the same fees therefor; and in default of payment
of such fine, penalty or forfeiture, or full and ample security for the
same satisfactory to said police justice, payable within thirty days there-
after, for recovery of which judgment may be rendered by him for such
fine, penalty or forfeiture and costs, he may commit the party defendant
in said judgment to the county jail of Talbot county for a period not
exceeding thirty days; and the sheriff of Talbot county shall receive and
confine the party so committed, and shall be entitled to the same compen-
sation therefor as is now allowed by law for the custody of prisoners, to
be paid by the Mayor and Council of the town of Easton; if any person
shall violate any of the ordinances of the town, under its charter, by loud
or boisterous talking, cursing or swearing or using profane or vulgar
language, or otherwise in any manner whatever disturb the peace and
good order of the said town, or shall obstruct the streets or sidewalks in
any manner whatever, or violate any ordinance relating to the market
of the town, it shall be lawful, and is made the duty of the chief of police
and other police of said town, and the sheriff or constables of Talbot county
to arrest the persons so offending or violating the ordinances as aforesaid,