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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Administer

the sheriff shall administer to each of them an oath

oath.

or affirmation, as the case may be, that he will justly

and impartially value and assess the sum or sums of

money to be paid by the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore for the portion of the said wharf or pier

so required by the said corporation, 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 Cir-

cuit Court of Baltimore county, to be filed in his

office, and shall, on some early day thereafter to be

named by the said court, be confirmed by said court,

if no sufficient cause to the contrary be shown, and

Recorded by

when confirmed, shall be recorded by the said clerk at

clerk.

the expense of the Mayor and City Council of Balti-

more; and if not confirmed, the said court may

direct another inquisition in the manner above

described. The inquisition shall describe the prop-

erty so valued for the Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore, and valuation when paid or tendered to

the owner or owners aforesaid, his or her legal rep-

resentatives, shall entitle the Mayor and City Council

to the property so valued, as fully as if it had been

conveyed by the owner thereof; and the valuation,

if not received when tendered, may at any time

thereafter be received from the Mayor and City

Council of Baltimore without interest by said owner

or owners, or his or her legal representatives.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the

said Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, so soon

as it shall acquire the said portion of the wharf or

pier mentioned in the first section of this act, shall

Permit free
entrance.

cause the same to be removed so as to permit a free

and unobstructed entrance to the said harbor of

Baltimore, and the said Mayor and City Council of

Baltimore is hereby authorized to levy upon the as-

sessable property of the said city for such sum of

money as may be necessary to pay to the owner or

owners of said wharf or pier for the value thereof,

together with the costs of such removal.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That this act

Effective.

shall take effect from the date of its passage.

Approved May 3, 1S82.