WM. T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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have been or may be sustained by the owner or

owners respectively, and said jury shall reduce their

inquisition to writing, and sign and seal the same,

and it shall then be returned to the clerk of the

Superior Court of Baltimore city, and shall be filed

Filed by clerk.

by said clerk, and shall be confirmed by the said

court as soon as may be, and not later than the next

term or session, if no sufficient cause to the con-

trary be shown, and when confirmed shall be re-

corded by said clerk at the expense of the company ;

but if the same be set aside, the court shall direct

another inquisition to be taken in the manner above

described; and the inquisition shall always describe

the property taken and the bounds of the land con-

demned, and the duration or quality of the interest

in the same valued for the corporation, and the said

valuation, when paid or tendered to the owner or

owners of the property, his, her, its or their heirs or

legal representatives, shall entitle said corporation

to the estate and interest thus valued as fully as if

it had been conveyed to it by lawful conveyance by

the owner or owners of the same; and the said

valuation, if not received when tendered, may at

Valuation ten-

any time thereafter be received without costs or in-

dered.

terest from said corporation by the owner or owners,

his, her, its or their heirs, legal representatives, suc-

cessors or assigns, or those by them duly constituted

to receive the same; and the said sheriff shall keep

said jury together a reasonable time until they shall

agree upon and sign and seal the said inquisition ;

and in case it shall so happen that the jury cannot

agree, after being kept together as aforesaid, the

sheriff may, in his discretion, discharge said jury,

and without any further warrant from a justice of

the peace shall, within five days thereafter, summon

another jury of twenty inhabitants as aforesaid, not

upon the former jury, and the same proceedings

shall be had in all respects as hereinbefore provided ;

and in case of a second or other disagreement of

the jury, the same proceedings shall be had until a

verdict or inquisition shall be made and confirmed as

aforesaid.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted. That the president and

directors, or a majority of them, may, from time to

Declare divi-

time, declare dividends of the net profits earned, or

dends.

make such provision for the receipt of the income