5264 ARTICLE 24.

may prescribe, shall entitle the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City 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 valuation, if not
received when tendered or paid into court may at any time thereafter be
received or recovered without costs from the Mayor and Council by the
owner or owners, his, her or their legal representative; and the said valua-
tion and the cost and other expenses of said condemnation shall be paid
out of 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 the
court shall within five days thereafter summon another jury of twenty
inhabitants, as aforesaid, not upon the former jury; and the same pro-
ceedings shall be had in all respects as hereinbefore provided; and in case
of a second or other disagreement of the jury the same procedings shall
be had until a verdict of inquisition shall be made and returned as afore-
said. And each juror shall receive one dollar per day or part of a day,
actually employed, irrespective of the number of separate parcels of land
valued by him, or of the number of cases in which he is sworn.

1918, ch. 236. 1920 Code, sec. 269. 1927, ch. 446, sec. 269-
213. The Mayor and Council may have the sidewalk and gutters or
both of any street, lane, alley or thoroughfare of Pocomoke City or any
part or either side of any such street, lane or alley paved or repaved with
such material and in such manner as they think proper. They may also
have the sidewalk or gutters or both sidewalk and gutters of any street,
lane, alley or thoroughfare or any part of either or both sides thereof
raised or lowered to such grade as they may think proper and paved or
repaved with such material and in such manner as they may deem best.
Whenever they deem it expedient, right and requisite that the sidewalks
or gutters or both sidewalk and gutters of any street, lane, alley or thor-
oughfare shall be paved or repaved, wholly or in part, or that the side-
walk or gutters or both sidewalk and gutters of any street, lane, alley or
thoroughfare or any part of either or both sides thereof be raised or low-
ered to such grade as they may think proper and paved or repaved, wholly
or in part, they may pass an ordinance requiring the said paving or
repaving or raising or lowering the grade and paving or repaving to be
done under the provisions of this section and shall notify the parties own-
ing the property in front of which the improvement is to be made and
arrange with them for the payment of the expense thereof, but if no satis-
factory arrangement can be made then they shall by order appoint three
discreet and disinterested residents of the town, over the age of twenty-
five years, as adjusters. The adjusters shall make a careful examination
of the real and leasehold property in front of which the proposed improve-
ment is to be made and also of the other or leasehold property on said
street, lane, alley or thoroughfare, or in the near vicinity thereof which