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CHAPTER 606.
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AN ACT to repeal and re-enact with amendments section thirty-
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eight, of article two, of the Code of Public Local Laws, title
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"Anne Arundel county," sub-title "Annapolis."
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SECTIOX 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
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That section thirty-eight, of article two, of the Code of Public
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Repeat
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Local Laws, title "Anne Arundel county," sub-title "Annapolis,"
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be and the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted with amend-
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ments so as to read as follows :
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38. Whenever in the judgment of the mayor, counsellor and
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aldermen of the city of Annapolis, it is deemed advisable to open,
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widen, straighten or extend any street, lane or alley or any part
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To open
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thereof in said city, and the owner or owners of the land or im-
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streets, &c.
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provements thereon cannot agree with said corporation upon the
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value of the property necessary for said purpose; or if the owner
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or owners or any of them be an infant, non compos mentis or for
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any other cause be legally incapable of contracting, application
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may be made by said corporation to any justice of the peace of
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Anne Arundel county who shall issue his warrant directed to the
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sheriff of said county, requiring him to summon a jury of twenty
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inhabitants of said city not related to the owner or in any wise inter-
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ested in said land, nor connected with said corporation, to meet
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on the land to be valued and condemned on a day named in said
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warrant, not less than ten nor more than twenty days after issu-
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ing the same; and if at the time and place any jurors summoned
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do not attend or shall be excused by the sheriff, then the sheriff
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shall immediately summon as many jurors as may be necessary
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to make twenty jurors, and from them each party or its. his, her
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or their agent or attorney shall strike four jurors, or if either party
be not present in person or by agent or attorney, the sheriff may
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Jury.
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strike off four jurors, and from those remaining on the list shall
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select twelve to act as the jury of inquest of damages; before
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the jury shall proceed to act the sheriff shall administer to
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each of the jurors an oath that he will justly and impartially
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value the damages which the owner of the property sought
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to be condemned, will sustain by reason of the occupation
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of the land required by the corporation for the purpose aforesaid,
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