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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That so soon as the provisions

Bays to be

of the previous section of this act, have been carried out all

marked

that portion of the bays aforesaid granted to said company

shall be plainly marked by stakes or buoys, ₍but nothing

shall be placed in the water to impede or interfere with the

free navigation of said bays by vessels or boats.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That said company shall have

power to build, buy, possess, use and own as many boats or

Power of
company.

vessels, whether navigated by steam or otherwise, and other

species of property as may be necessary for the use of said

company in the exercise of its chartered rights ; and the said

company shall have power to employ as much help as may

be necessary or convenient, and to do all other things nec-

essary and proper to be done, to the end that it may have

the full enjoyment of and protection in the rights and

privilege granted by and consistent with this act.

SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the said president and

directors, or their agent or agents authorized by them may

Condem-

agree with the owner or owners of any land, earth, gravel,

nation

stone, timber, materials streams or any improvements which

may be wanted for the proper construction or repair of the

said inlet or canal, for the purchase and use and occupation

or division of the same, and if they cannot agree or if any

owner is an intaut or feme covert, or non compos mentis, or

is from any other cause legally incapable of making a valid

contract, application may be made by the said company to

any justice of the peace, of said county, who shall there-

upon issue his warrant under his hand and seal to the sheriff

of the county requiring him to summon a jury of twenty

of the male inhabitants of said county above the age of

twenty-one years, not related to the parties or in any way

interested, to meet on the land, or near the materials or

other property wanted, on a day named in said warrant,

not less than ten nor more than twenty days after issuing

the same ; and if at said time and place any of the said

jurors summoned do not attend, the sheriff shall immedi-

ately summon as many persons similarly qualified as to-

gether with those in attendance, will furnish a panel of

twenty jurors in attendance ; and from the panel each party,

his, her, its or their ageut or attorney, or it either party be

not present in person or by agent, or being present in per-

son or by agent, refuse to strike, the sheriff for him, it or

them, may strike off four persons, and the remaining twelve

shall act as a jury of inquest of damages, and to each, be-

fore he acts as such juror, the sheriff shall administer an

oath or affirmation, that he will justly and impartially

value the damages which the owner or owners will sustain