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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

by action of debt, or the directors may sell the stock

so unpaid at public auction for the installment then

Give public

due thereon, first giving thirty days' public notice of

notice.

the time and place of sale in some newspaper in gen-

eral circulation in the county where such delinquent

stockholders reside at the time of making such sub-

scription or becoming such assignee or transferee, or

of his actual residence at the time of said sale ; or

if such stockholder reside out of the State, such pub-

lication shall be made in the county where the prin-

cipal office of the company is located ; and if residue

of money shall remain after paying the amount due

on said stock, the same shall on demand be paid over

to the owner ; if the whole of said installment be

Recoverable

not paid by such sale, the remainder shall be recov-

by action of

erable by an action of debt against the subscriber,

debt.

assignee or transferee.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That the board of di-

rectors of said company, or a majority of them or

Agree witli

, their agents, may agree with the owner or owners

owner o i

of any lands, earth, timber, gravel or other material

owners.

or any improvement for the construction or repair

of any part of said road or its works, for the pur-

chase or use or occupation of the same, and in case

they cannot agree, or if the owner or owners, or any

of them, be a feme covert, minor, or non compos

mentis, or out of the county in which the property

wanted may be, or where such land and material

may be needed, on application to a justice of the

Issue warrant

peace of such county, he shall issue his warrant un-

der his hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of said

county, requiring him to summon a jury of twenty

inhabitants of said county, not related to the owners

nor in any wise interested in the premises, to meet

on the land to be valued on a day to be specified in

said warrant, not less than ten nor more than thirty

days after issuing the same, and in case any of the

jurors aforesaid do not attend, he, the said sheriff, shall

Summons

instanter summon as many jurors as may be neces-

jurors.

sary with the jurors in attendance, to furnish a panel

of twenty jurors in attendance, and from such panel

each party, his, her or their agent, or attorney, may

strike four persons, and if either be not present in

person, or by agent, or attorney, or being so present
shall refuse to strike as aforesaid, the sheriff may