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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

the purposes aforesaid, and for the repair and reno-

vation of any of said works.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That the president and

directors of said corporation, or a majority of them,

or any agent or agents authorized by them, may

Agree with

agree with the owner or owners of any land, rever-

owner.

sions, remainders, terms for years, improvements,

ways, appurtenances, materials or other property

which may be hereafter wanted for any of the ob-

jects hereinbefore stated for the purchase, use and

occupation of the same, and if they cannot agree,

or if the owner or owners of any of them is an in-

fant, feme covert, non compos mentis, non-resident,

or out of said city of Baltimore when any of the

property aforesaid may be wanted, or for any cause

Legal incapa-

be legally incapable of contracting, application may

bility.

be made by said corporation, hereby chartered, to

any justice of the peace of the State of Maryland

for said city of Baltimore, who shall thereupon issue

his warrant, under his hand and seal, to the sheriff

of the city of Baltimore, requiring him to summon

Summon jury.

a jury of twenty of the inhabitants of said city,

above the age of twenty-one years, not related to

the parties or interested, to meet on the land or

near the improvements, materials or other property

wanted, on a day to be named in said warrant, not

less than ten nor more than twenty days after issu-

ing the same; and if any of the said jurors sum-

moned do not attend at said time and place, or

should not be qualified to act as such jurors, said

sheriff shall immediately summon as many jurors,

as with the jurors in attendance and qualified to act,

shall furnish a panel of twenty jurors in attendance,

and from said panel each party, his, her, its or their

agent or attorney, or either, be riot present in per-

son or by agent or attorney, or being present refuses

to strike, the sheriff for him, her, its or them may

strike off four jurors, 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 admin-

Oath or affirm-

ister an oath or affirmation that he will justly and

ation.

impartially value the land, improvements, materials

or other property to be taken, and the other dam-

ages which the owner or owners will sustain by the

taking of the same by said corporation for its uses,

and they shall estimate and determine what damages