ART. 20.] CRISFIELD. 1791

county, above the age of twenty-one years, residing crowning
real estate in the territory proposed to be annexed, and no other
shall be entitled to vote at said election.

1886, ch. 506.

96. If land or property shall be condemned in the extension
of the limits of said town, or in opening new streets, lanes or
alleys, or in widening, draining or extending existing streets,
lanes or alleys, or for a market-house, or for any other uses or
purposes of said town, and the owners of said property cannot
agree with the commissioners as to the value thereof, or the
owners of said property are married women whose husbands will
not convey jointly with them, or persons under twenty-one years
of age, insane or lunatic, the value thereof shall be ascertained by
a jury of twelve disinterested men of the county, having no
assessable property within the limits of said town; and the said
commissioners shall issue their warrant to the sheriff of said
county to summon such jury, and they shall meet at Crisfield, on
a day to be fixed by the sheriff, at which the owner of the
property to be condemned shall have notice, and having been
sworn by the sheriff, without partiality or prejudice, to value the
property and damages sustained by the owner, by means of such
condemnation, according to the best of their skill and judgment,
shall proceed to make such valuation; and the sheriff shall return
the inquisition under his hand and seal, and under the hands and
seals of the jury, to the commissioners of said town, to be recorded
among the land records of said county; and the said commis-
sioners shall, upon payment or tender to the owner of the
property condemned, of the damage assessed by the inquisition,
acquire title to the property so condemned, for the purposes
aforesaid.

1873, ch. 409.

97. It shall not be lawful to build or erect any wharf, pier,
improvement, or any structure of any kind in the Little Anna-
messex river or cove, or extend the same from either shore beyond
or outside the building line, established by the commissioners
appointed under the act of 1872, chapter 409, and ratified by the
circuit court and recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit
court for Somerset county; and every person offending against