ART. 11. ] FREDERICK COUNTY. 549

1867, c. 96 adds the following sections to follow section 147:

148. The mayor, aldermen and common council of Frederick shall have full power and authority to erect one or more markets within the corporate	1867, c. 147. Corporation to build markets.
limits of the city of Frederick, and to purchase all such real estate as may be necessary for such pur- pose, and receive deeds for the same.	Real estate to be purchased.
149. In case the said mayor, aldermen and com- mon council of Frederick and the party or par- ties owning said real estate cannot agree upon the price of such real estate, or the parties owning the same shall be infants, idiots or lunatics, or absent from the county or state, or feme coverts, or trustees having no beneficial interest therein, or cestuisque trust, or shall labor under any disability, then upon application being made by the mayor of said city to any justice of the peace of the state of Maryland, in and for Frederick county, the said justice shall issue	Disagreements how decided.
his summons under his hand and seal to the sheriff of Frederick county, requiring him to summon twenty persons qualified to act as jurors, not inter- ested in the property to be valued, to meet at or near the property to be valued on a day named in said summons, not less than ten nor more than twenty days after the issuing of the same.	Jurors to con- demn land.
150. If at the time named in said summons any of said jurors summoned do not attend, the sheriff shall immediately summons as many persons qualified to act as jurors, as may be necessary with the jurors in attendance to form a panel of twenty jurors, and from them each party or his agent, or if either be not present in person or by agent, the sheriff for such party may strike off four jurors and the remain- ing persons shall act as the jury for the inquest of damages.	In case jurors do not attend.
15l. Before the said jury shall proceed to act the sheriff shall administer to each of them an oath, that he will justly and impartially value the damages which the owner shall sustain by the condemnation	Sheriff to ad- minister oath to jurors.