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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
Passed May
18, 1853.
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CHAPTER 195.
AN ACT in addition to the act passed at December
session, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, chapter
two hundred and ten, entitled, an act to introduce
wholesome water into the city of Frederick.
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Power to convey
water.
To appropriate
land.
To appropriate
springs.
In case of
disagreement
may summon
jury of inquest.
Oath.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted
by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That in the introduction of water into
the city of Frederick, under and by virtue of the act to
which this is a supplement, the corporate authorities of
Frederick be, and they are hereby vested with full
power and authority to convey such water in such manner
and by such route as they may deem most suitable
and proper; and also to appropriate such and so much
land as may be necessary and proper, for the location
and construction of any work or building appurtenant
to said water works; and also to appropriate any spring
or springs, not attached to any dwelling, that may be
necessary for furnishing a full supply of water to the
city of Frederick, and if compensation shall be required
by any person or persons, whose rights may be effected
by the conveyance of said water, or the appropriation
of land or springs as aforesaid, and such person or persons
shall not be able to agree with said corporation
upon the amount of such compensation, or if the owner
or owners or any of them, be a feme covert, under age,
non compos mentis, or out of the county, application
may be made to any justice of the peace of this State
for Frederick county, who shall thereupon issue his
summons under his hand and seal, directed to the
sheriff of said county, requiring him to summons a
jury of twenty inhabitants of said county, not interested
in the property to be valued, nor related to the
owner thereof, to meet on the land or near the other
property to be valued, on a day named in said summons,
not less than ten nor more than twenty days after
the issuing of the same, and if at said time and place
any of said jurors summoned do not attend, the sheriff
shall immediately summon as many jurors as may be
necessary, with the jurors in attendance, and from them
each party, his, her or their agent, or if either be not
present in person or by agent, the sheriff, for him, her
or them, may strike off four jurors, and the remaining
twelve shall act as the jury of inquest of damages;
and before they act as such, the sheriff shall administer
to each of them an oath or affirmation, as the case may
be, that he will justly and impartially value the damages
which the owner or owners will sustain by the use
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