10 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

ing the said water into the said city, or if such owner or owners
shall be absent out of the State, or unknown, it shall be lawful
for the said commissioners, or a majority of them, or the mayor
and councilmen, to apply to any justice of the peace for Alle-
gany county, who shall thereupon issu? his summons, under his
hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of said county, requiring
him to summon a jury of twenty inhabitants of said county not
interested in the property to be valued, to meet on the laud or
near the other property to be valued, on a day named in said
summons, not less than nor more than twenty days after the
issuing of the same.

11. If at the time named in said summons any of said jurors
summoned do not attend, the sheriff shall immediately summon
as many jurors as may be necessary with the jurors in attend-
ance, and from them each party or his agent, or if either be not
present in person or by his agent, the sheriff for him may strike
off four jurors, and the remaining jurors shall act as the jury
of inquest of damages.

12. The sheriff shall, before the said jury shall proceed to act,
administer to each of them an oath that they will justly and
impartially value the damages which the owner will sustain by
the use or occupation of the property required by the said cor-
poration.

13. The jury shall summon such witnesses as the parties may
require, and examine them on oath in relation to the value of
the property to be condemned, and they shall reduce the testi-
mony, if any is taken by them, to writing, and after the testi-
mony is closed, and without any unnecessary delay, and before
proceeding to the examination of any other claim, they shall
ascertain aud determine the compensation which ought to be
made by said corporation to the party owning or being inter-
ested in the property to be condemned.

14. The jury shall reduce their inquisition to writing, and
shall sign and seal the same, and it shall then be returned by
the sheriff to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany county,
and shall be filed by the said clerk in said court.