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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Hillen road, and thence northwesterly on the Hillen road

to Chesapeake Avenue, and thence on Chesapeake Avenue

to and into the village of Towsontown, and said company

is hereby authorized to change said route or any portion

thereof between its two termini if it should find the same to

be necessary or practicable.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That, in the construction of

Within
city limits.

that part of its road within the limits of the city of Balti-

more, the same shall be constructed under the supervisions

of the city commissioners, and all the provisions of the act

of eighteen hundred and eighty-two, chapter two hundred

and twenty-nine entitled, an act to secure the benefit of a

five cent fare upon the passenger horse railways in the city

of Baltimore, and which require the payment of a tax on

the gross receipts of horse railway companies in the city of

Baltimore shall be applicable to the corporation created by

the provisions of this act.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That said corporation

May con-

herein incorporated is hereby authorized to consolidate with.

solidate.

such road or roads as it may cross, or connect with upon

such terms as may be agreed upon between them, or said

road may purchase, lease or sell to such connecting roads or

may be leased by them.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That in case the said company

Condem-

shall not be able to agree with the owner or owners of any

nation pro-
ceedings.

land required for said railway, or for the purchase of stone,

gravel or earth required in the construction thereof for the

crossing of any turnpike road or railroad, or where such

owner may be an infant, feme covert or now compos mentis,

on application to a justice of the peace of Baltimore County

or Baltimore City as the case may be, he shall issue his

warrant, under his hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of

said county or city, requiring him to summons a jury of

twenty inhabitants of said county or city, not in anywise

interested in the question, to meet on the land or premises,

to be valued on a day named in said warrant, not less than

ten, nor more than twenty days from the date thereof, of

which day so appointed the owner, or owners of said land

shall have at least teu days' notice, to be given by the presi-

dent of said company, and on the day, at the place so

appointed the said sheriff shall attend ; and if any of the

jurors so summoned by him shall fail to attend he shall im-

mediately summon as many others as, with those in attend-

ance, may, furnish a panel of twenty jurors, and from the

panel thus completed each party or his agent may strike the

names of four persons, and the remaining twelve jurors shall

form a panel to assess the value of such lands or materials.