ART. 11.] MECHANICSTOWN. 1179

1870, ch. 98.

322. The commissioners shall have power to make all suck
by-laws, regulations and ordinances as shall not conflict with the
constitution and laws of the State of Maryland.

Ibid.

323. They shall have power to establish the limits and width,
of the streets and alleys of the said village, and remove obstruc-
tions therefrom, and may, with the consent of one-half of the
owners of the property through which they may pass, open new
streets, lanes or alleys.

Ibid.

324. They shall have power to provide for the payment of
damages and expenses of opening, widening, laying out and
grading the streets, lanes and alleys in said village, by levying
and assessing the same generally upon the whole of the assessable
property, or specially upon the assessable property of persons
benefited thereby.

Ibid.

325. If on the opening or laying out of any new street, lane
or alley, the said commissioners cannot agree with the owner of
any land or property wanted for the purposes, for the purchase,
use or occupation of the same, application may be made to any
justice of the peace for the county, who shall thereupon issue his
warrant, under his hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of the
county, requiring him to summon a jury of twenty inhabitants of
the county, who shall be freeholders, and not related to any of
the parties, or in anywise interested, to meet on the land or near
the property to be valued, on a day to be named in the warrant,
not less than ten nor more than twenty days after issuing the
warrant.

Ibid

326. Before the jury proceed to act, the sheriff shall admin-
ister to each juror an oath that he will justly and impartially
value the damages; and if any of the jurors summoned do not
attend, the sheriff shall immediately summon as many jurors as
shall be necessary, with those in attendance, to furnish a panel of
twenty, and from them each party or his agent, or if either be