WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE. GOVERNOR. 301

	SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the
	money raised by the issue and sale of bonds under
	the provisions of this act, shall be kept and designated
	as the "jail fund," and shall be applied exclusively	How applied.
	to the cost of the erection of the said new jail and
	the purchase of the grounds therefor ; and the said
	tax authorized by this act shall be collected as all
	other taxes are collected in said county.
	SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That should
	the said county commissioners determine to erect
	said buildings at any other or different place than
	upon the lot now occupied by the present jail of
	said county, and the aaid county commissioners and
	the owner or owners of said ground or grounds de-
	sired for the erection of such buildings shall not be	Summons ju-
	able to agree upon the price of such real estate, or	rors
	in case the owner or owners of the same, or any of
	them, be feme covert, infant or non compos mentis,
	the president of said board of county commissioners
	shall make application to the clerk of the Circuit
	Court for Talbot county, who shall thereupon issue
	a writ ad quod damnum, under his hand and seal
	of office, directed to the sheriff of Talbot county, re-
	quiring him to summon twenty persons, qualified to
	act as jurors, not interested in the property to be
	valued, to meet at or near the property to be valued,
	on a day named in said writ, not less than five nor
	more than ten days after the issuing of the same,
	and if at the time and place named in said writ any
	of said jurors summoned do not attend, the sheriff
	shall immediately summon as many persons qualified
	to act as jurors as may be necessary with the jurors
	in attendance to form a panel of twenty jurors, and from them each party or his agent, or if either party
	be not present in person or by agent, the sheriff, for
	such party, shall strike off four jurors, and the re-
	maining persons shall act as the jury for the inquest
	of damages ; and before the said jury shall proceed
	to act, the sheriff shall administer to each of them
	an oath or affirmation, as the case may be, that he
	will justly and impartially value the damages which
	the owner or owners shall sustain by the condemna-
	tion of said property required by the said county
	commissioners, and in case said property shall be
	subject to a lease, or an estate for life, the jury shall