Oath.
Inquisition to
be reduced to
writing and
recorded by
clerk of Circuit
court.
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the application of the mayor and city council of Baltimore,
for any justice of the peace of the county in
which such lands, earth, or other property or materials
as aforesaid are situated, to issue his warrant to the
sheriff of said county, commanding him to direct and
summon from the said county a jury of twenty free
holders, inhabitants of said county, not related to the
owner or owners or persons interested, as aforesaid, in
the said real estate or other property, to meet on the
premises which is to be valued, on some certain day to
be named in said warrant, of which said warrant and
the day therein named for the meeting of the jury,
twenty days notice shall be given previous to such day
by the mayor and city council of Baltimore to every owner
or person interested as aforesaid, or any infant or lunatic,
or feme covert, to his or her guardian or husband,
or in either case, are left at his or her place of abode,
or if out of the State or unknown, such notice shall be
published not less than eight weeks successively in some
one or more of the newspapers of the county
in which such property may be located, if any newspaper
be published such county, and from the list of
jurors so returned and attending it may be lawful for
the person, the condemnation of whose property may
be desired, to strike four, and for the said mayor and
city council of Baltimore to strike four, so that the
number of jurors be reduced to twelve, and in case either
party shall neglect or refuse to strike off the names of
jurors, then it shall be the duty of the sheriff or his
deputy, who shall attend, as hereinafter directed, to
strike off jurors for the party so refusing or neglecting,
so that the number of jurors be reduced to twelve, as
aforesaid, and it shall be the duty of the twelve jurors
so remaining to inquire into, assess, and ascertain the
sum or sums of money to be paid by the said mayor
and city council of Baltimore for the land, spring,
brook, water rights or other property which they may
deem necessary to purchase and hold or use for the
purpose; and before the said jury act as such, the said
sheriff or his deputy shall administer to each of them
an oath or affirmation, as the case may be, that he
would justly and impartially value the damages which
the owners or parties holding an interest therein will
sustain by the use and occupation of said property by
the mayor and city council of Baltimore; and the said
jury shall reduce their inquisition to writing, and shall
sign and seal the same, and it shall then be returned
by the said sheriff to the clerk of the circuit court of
said county, and by such clerk filed in his office, and
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