994 DORCHESTER COUNTY. [ART. 10.

1882, ch. 216.

78. The said commissioners and owners may in writing submit
said valuation to the jury without evidence, or if either party
desire witnesses, the sheriff shall, before the hearing, summon the
same; and said witness shall receive seventy-five cents for each
day's attendance, and the sheriff the usual fees allowed him for
serving process, all of which fees shall be taxed as a part of the
costs.

Ibid.

79. The jury, in estimating the damages, shall take into con-
sideration not only the actual value of the land condemned, but
also the injury, if any, that may be done by means thereof, to
any other property of the owner, and shall also take into con-
sideration the benefits or advantages that may accrue to the
owner thereby.

Ibid.

80. The sheriff shall return the inquisition under his hand and
seal, and the hands and seals of the jury, to the commissioners,
who shall have it recorded among the land records of Dorchester
county, and the said condemnation, upon payment or tender to the
owner of the land condemned, or his legal guardian, if an infant
is the owner, of the damages assessed by the inquisition, and his
legal costs, shall vest the property condemned in the commis-
sioners ; provided, that if the damages assessed in said inquisition
shall not exceed in amount any sum which the commissioners
may have tendered in writing to the owner, or in case of an
infant, to his guardian, for the land condemned before the
issuing of said warrant to the sheriff, then the payment or tender
of the damages as aforesaid, less the entire costs of the commis-
sioners, shall likewise vest the property condemned in the com-
missioners; provided further, that either party feeling himself
aggrieved by any inquisition as aforesaid, shall have the right to
appeal within thirty days to the circuit court for Dorchester
county, upon filing with the clerk of said court a bond to the
State of Maryland in penalty of five hundred dollars, with secu-
rity to be approved by said clerk, conditioned for the payment
of costs; if an appeal should be taken, the commissioners shall
immediately send all the papers in the case to said clerk, and said
court shall direct issues to be framed, and hear the case de novo.