ART. 8. ] CECIL COUNTY.

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 a jury of
inquest of damages.

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182. The jury in estimating the damages, shall
take into estimate the benefit resulting to the owner
from the opening and laying out of said streets, lanes
or alleys, through, along or near to the property of
said owner, but only in the extinguishment of the

Ibid s. 17.
Damages.

claims for damages; and 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 said county, and
shall be confirmed by said court at its next session,
if no sufficient cause to the contrary be shown, and
when confirmed shall be recorded by said clerk, at
the expense of said commissioners.

Inquisition.

183. If said inquisition be set aside, the said court
may direct another to be taken in the same manner
as the first; every inquisition shall describe the pro-
perty taken or the bounds of the land condemned,
and the quantity and duration of the interest in the
same, therein valued, and such valuation when paid
or tendered to the owner of the property or his legal
representatives, shall entitle the said commissioners
to the estate, use and interest in the same so valued
for the purposes aforesaid, as fully as if the same had
been conveyed by the owner, and the valuation, if
not received from the said commissioners when ten-
dered, may at any time thereafter be received, with
costs, by the owner or his legal representatives.

Ibid, s 18
What inquisi-
tion to contain.

184. The said president and commissioners shall
have power to levy and collect taxes in said town
not exceeding in any one year thirty cents in the
hundred dollars, on the assessable property of said
village; and they shall once in every five years, or
oftener if they think proper, appoint an assessor who
shall under oath, assess and value the property in
said village in the same manner and with like autho-

Ibid. s. 19.
Power to levy
and collect
taxes.

rity as county assessors; provided, that in assessing

Proviso.