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see fit to appoint, who may enforce the payment of said town
taxes in the same manner and with like effect as collectors of
State and county taxes may enforce the payment of State and
county taxes; and the said commissioners shall fix the term of
office, amount of bond and compensation of such collectors.

1888, ch. 312.

236. If in opening or laying out any new street, lane or alley,
the said commissioners cannot agree with the owner of any land

or property wanted for the purpose, for the purchase, use or
occupation of the same, or if the owner be a feme covert, under
age, non compos mentis, or out of Cecil county, application may
be made to any justice of the peace for said county, who shall
thereupon issue his warrant under his hand and seal, directed to
the sheriff, requiring him to summon a jury of twenty inhabitants
of said county, not related to the parties or in anywise interested,
to meet on the land or near to the property to be valued, on a

day to be named in the warrant, not less than ten nor more than
twenty days after the issuing of the same.

Ibid.

237. If, at the said time and place, any of the jurors sum-
moned do not attend, the sheriff shall immediately summon as
many jurors as shall be necessary, with the jurors in attendance,
to furnish 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 him, may strike off four jurors, and the remaining
twelve shall act as a jury of inquest of damages.

Ibid.

238. Before the jury proceed to act the sheriff shall administer
to each juror an oath that he will justly and impartially value
the damages which the owner will sustain by the use or occupa-
tion of his property for the uses hereinbefore named.

Ibid.

239. The jury in estimating the damages shall take into
account the benefit resulting to the owner from opening and
laying out said streets, lanes or alleys, through, along or near to