1436 UNITED STATES—CONDEMNATION. [ART. 96.

paper be so printed and published; such notice shall contain an
accurate description of the land to which the United States
desire to obtain title, and shall state the names of the owners or

supposed owners thereof, and the place or supposed places of
their residence, or that said places are unknown, and whether said
owners or any of them are feme covert, under age or non compos
mentis, if such facts are known to the agent filing such petition,
and the public uses to which the United States desire to put the
said land, and shall require all persons interested in the said land
to come forward on a day to be specified in said notice, and file
their objections, if any they have, to the proposed condemnation
of said land.

1874, ch. 395, sec. 5.

9. At the time specified in said notice, or at the earliest con-
venient day thereafter, it shall be the duty of the said court to
proceed to hear and determine upon said petition, and the objec-
tions, if any, filed against the proposed condemnation; and the
said court may order such witnesses to be summoned, and hear
such evidence as may be produced before it by the respective
parties, to show the necessity or impropriety of the proposed con-
demnation ; and if the said court shall determine that condemna-
tion of the said lands or other real property ought not to be had,
it shall dismiss said petition, at the cost of the United States;
but if it shall determine that condemnation of the land in said
petition described ought to be had by the United States, it shall
pass an order directing the clerk of said court, under his hand

and the seal of said court, to issue a warrant to the sheriff of the
county wherein said land lies, requiring him to summon a jury
of twenty inhabitants of said county, not interested in the land
to be valued, to meet on or near the land to be valued, on a day
named in said summons, not less than ten nor more than twenty

days after issuing the same; provided, five days' notice thereof
be given to the owner, reputed owner or agent of such owner of
the lands proposed to be condemned.

Ibid. sec. 6.

10. If at the time named in such summons any of said jurors
summoned do not attend, the said sheriff shall immediately sum-
mon as many jurors as may he necessary, with the jurors in