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40. If the said park commission shall find that they cannot
agree with the owner of any land, or of any interest in land
which may be found necessary to be added to "Druid Hill Park, "
or if the owner thereof or any of the owners thereof, at the time
of application, be a feme covert, under age, non compos mentis,
or residing out of Baltimore county, application may be made
by the said commissioners, to any justice of the peace of Balti-
more county, who shall thereupon issue his warrant, under hand
and seal, directed to the sheriff of the county, directing him to
summon a jury of twenty inhabitants of said county, not related
to the parties, nor in anywise interested, to meet on the land to
be valued on a day named in said warrant, not less than ten nor
more than twenty days after issuing the same, and if at said
time and place, any of said jurors summoned do not attend, the
said sheriff shall immediately summon as many jurors as may
be necessary, with the jurors in attendance, to furnish a panel of
twenty jurors in attendance, and from them 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 the jury of inquest; and before they act as
such, the sheriff shall administer to each of them an oath or
affirmation, as the case may be, that he will justly and impar-
tially value the land required by said mayor and city council
for the park aforesaid; and the said jury shall reduce their in-
quisition to writing, and shall sign and seal the same, and it
shall then be returned by the said sheriff to the clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for Baltimore county, to be filed in his court, for con-
firmation by said court at its next term, if no sufficient cause to
the contrary be shown, and when returned, shall be recorded by
the said clerk at the expense of the said mayor and city council;
but, if set aside, the court may direct another inquisition to be
taken, in the manner above prescribed; and such inquisition
shall describe the land taken, and the quantity or duration of
the interest in the same, valued for the mayor and city council,
and such valuation, when paid or tendered to the owner of said
land, or his or her legal representatives, shall entitle the said
mayor and city council to the estate or interest so valued, as
fully as if it had been conveyed by the owner thereof; and the
valuation, if not received when tendered, may at any time there-