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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

hereby authorized and empowered to receive and col-

lect all subscriptions and monies subscribed to the

stock of said turnpike road and apply the same to

the building, making, grading or constructing of

said turnpike, and maintaining the same in proper

repair, cut, dig and make a turnpike road, properly

bedded, paved with stone, between the said places

therein named, not to exceed sixty feet in width,

with necessary slopes, of which eighteen feet shall

be an artificial road of stone, the said company to

use, if deemed by them expedient, the bed of the

present county road between the said places, with

power, however, to deviate therefrom in whole or in

part, whenever the said company may deem such de-

Consent of

viation necessary or judicious, the said president and
directors first obtaining, in writing, the consent of

owners.

the owners of such land over which the said road

shall pass, or if such consent cannot be had, and the

said company deem it necessary to pass through the

said land for the said road, then the president and

Apply to

directors, on behalf of the company, shall apply to

Justice of

Peace

the justice of the peace for the said county, who shall

thereupon issue his warrant, directed to the sheriff

of the county, commanding him to summon twenty

disinterested persons, qualified, to serve as jurors in

the " Circuit Court " to meet on the said land at the

proper time, as directed by said sheriff, giving at least

five days' notice, to the parties interested, or their

Jurors

agents, and after four of the jurors so summoned are

stricken off.

stricken off the panel by the said president or his

agent, and four others by the person or persons in-

terested in said land, or his or her agent, or in the

absence of either party, or their refusal to strike off,

four shall be stricken off by said sheriff, and [the]

sheriff shall qualify the remaining jurors, either by

oath or affirmation, as the case may be, justly, truly

Value such

and impartially to value such damages as may be

damages.

sustained by the owner or owners of such land by

reason of such road passing through the same, and

make true inquisition and return of the amount of

such damages, taking into consideration the advan-

tages and disadvantages, if any, which may be sus-

tained by the owner or owners of said land, under

their hands and seals, to the justice who issued the

Finding and

warrant, and that the said finding and decision of

decision.

said jurors shall be returned by the said justice of