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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
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the said company to take private property for
their use, without the compensation agreed upon by
the company and the owners thereof, or awarded by a
jury as hereinafter provided, being first paid or tendered
to the party entitled to receive such compensation.
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Liability of
stockholders.
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SEC. 13. And be it enacted,
That each stockholder
of said company shall be individually liable to the
creditors of said company to an amount equal to the
amount unpaid on the stock held by himself, for all the
debts and inabilities of such company, until the whole
amount of the capital stock so held by him shall have
been paid to the company.
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President may
agree with
owners of
land, &c.,
wanted.
In case of
disagreement,
jury to be summoned
to value
damages.
Inquisition to
be reduced to
writing and
filed in clerk's
office.
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SEC. 14. And be it enacted,
That the said president
and directors, or their agent or agents authorised by
them, may agree with the owner or owners of any land,
earth or materials, or any improvements which may be
wanted for the construction or repairs of any of the
said roads, or any of their works, for the purchase or
use and occupation of the same; and if they cannot
agree, or if the owner or owners of any of them be an
infant, feme covert, non compos mentis, or out of the
county where such property wanted may be, when such
property may be wanted, application may be made to
any justice of the peace of such county, who shall
thereupon issue his warrant under hand and seal, to the
sheriff of the county, requiring him to summon a jury
of twenty of the inhabitants, not related to the parties,
nor in anywise interested, to meet on the lands, or near
the materials or other property wanted, on a day named
in said warrant, not less than ten or more than twenty
days after issuing the same, and if at said time and
place any of the said jurors summoned do not attend,
the sheriff shall immediately summon as many persons
similarly qualified, as together with those in attendance,
will furnish a pannel of twenty jurors in attendance,
and from the pannel, each party, his, her, its or
their agents or attorney, or if either party be not present
in person or by attorney or agent, the sheriff, for him,
her, it or them, may strike off four persons and the remaining
twelve shall act as the jury of inquest of damages,
and to each before he acts as such juror, the sheriff
shall administer an oath or affirmation that he will
justly and impartially value the damages which the
owner or owners will sustain by the use or occupation of
the same, required by the company; and the jury shall
reduce their inquisition to writing, and sign and seal the
same, and it shall be returned by the sheriff to the
clerk of the circuit court for his county, and be filed
by said clerk in his office, and shall be confirmed by
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