500 CITY OF BALTIMORE. [ART. 4.

such clerk filed in his office, 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 the said clerk at the
expense of the mayor and city council.

P. L. L , (1860,) art. 4, sec. 647.

687. If said inquisition be set aside by the court, the said
court shall direct another inquisition to be taken in the manner
hereinafter directed.

Ibid. sec. 648.

688. Every such inquisition shall describe the property taken
or the bounds of the land condemned, and the quantity or dura-
tion of the Interest in the same valued to the mayor and city
council; and such valuation, when paid or tendered to the owner
of said property or his legal representatives, shall entitle the-
mayor and city council to the full, legal and equitable title, in-
terest and estate of the owners of said property, estate and
interest in the same thus valued, as fully as it had been held by
the owners of the same; and the valuation, if not received when
tendered, may at any time thereafter be received without interest
by the said owners, or their legal representatives.

Ibid. sec. 649.

689. If the twenty jurors summoned as hereinbefore directed
shall not appear at the time and place appointed, the sheriff or
his deputy shall forthwith summon other freeholders of the city,
qualified as before directed, to make up the said jury to the
number of twelve.

Ibid. sec. 650.

690. The jurors summoned and attending shall be allowed
one dollar per day for their services; the sheriff shall be allowed
the same fees as for summoning jurors to the superior court, and
two dollars a day for each day he or his deputy shall attend upon,
such inquisition; and such expenses shall be paid by the mayor
and city council, except in cases of objection to the confirmation
of the inquisition, when the costs in said court may be awarded
in the discretion of the court.