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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

and also the benefit that shall accrue to the owner or possessor of

said ground or improvements by reason of the opening, widening,

straightening or extending said streets, lanes or alleys; the jury

shall then reduce their inquisition to writing; shall sign and seal

the same, and it shall then be returned by the said sheriff to the

Inquisi-

clerk of the circuit court for said county; and if no sufficient

tion.

cause to the contrary be shown within thirty days from said re-

turn, the same shall be confirmed by the court and recorded in

the land records of said county, but if set aside, or if the jury fail

to agree after having been kept together a reasonable time, in the

judgment of the sheriff, and be discharged, then the sheriff, at the

instance of said corporation, without further warrant, shall sum-

mon another jury of twenty inhabitants as aforesaid, and the same

proceedings shall be had as hereinbefore provided, and so on until

the verdict or inquisition shall be confirmed by the court; the ex-

penses of the inquisition and return including a per diem of one

dollar and fifty cents to each juror shall be paid by the corpor-

Proceed-

ation; the inquisition shall describe the property taken, or the

ings-

bounds of the land condemned, and the quality or duration of the

interest, the amount of damages awarded and benefits deducted,

if any, in the same valued for the corporation; and such valuation

after deducting benefits when paid, or tendered to the owner of

said property or the party entitled to the same, or paid into court,

after the confirmation of said inquisition shall entitle the corpor-

ation to the estate and interest in the same thus valued, as fully

as if it had been conveyed by the owner of the same; and the valu-

ation if not received when tendered, may at any time thereafter

be received from said corporation, but without interest; the same

proceedings may be had by said corporation for assessing benefits

to property owners on the line or lines of such streets, lanes or

alleys, or parts thereof opened, extended, straightened or widened

as herein provided, and the inquisition of the jury when con-

firmed shall be a lien for the amount thereof on the respective

properties so benefited, and the payment thereof enforced by ex-

ecution issued out of the circuit court for Anne Arundel county,

as in cases of judgments iu said court; the oath to be administered

by the sheriff in such cases shall be, to faithfully and impartially

assess such benefits as may accrue to said property owners, by the

opening, extending, straightening or widening of such streets,

lanes, alleys or parts of the same.

Effective.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect from

the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1890.