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materials may be, which justice shall thereupon issue his war-
rant, directed to the sheriff of the county, commanding him
to summon twenty disinterested persons qualified to serve as
jurors in the county court, to meet at a place where the said
materials may be, four of whom may be stricken off the pan-
nel by the said president and directors or their agent, and four
by the person or persons interested, or in his, her or their ab-
sence by the sheriff, and the said sheriff shall qualify the said
twelve remaining persons, either by oath or affirmation, us the
case may be, justly ,truly and impartially, to value the damages
which may be sustained by the owner or owners of such ma-
terials required by such company, and the said persons shall,
after valuing the damages which may be sustained by the own-
er or owners of such materials, and return under their hands
and seals, to the justice who issued the warrant, one copy of
their said valuation, one other copy to the president of the
said company, and one other copy to the owner or owners of
the said materials, it such owner shall reside in the county
where the said materials may be, and shall not be under any
legal disability to receive the money adjudged, and give
sufficient discharges therefor; and the president and mana-
gers snail pay, or secure to be paid, the damages so adjudged
before they shall proceed to remove the said materials, and if
the owner or owners of such materials shall reside out of the
county, or be under any legal disability, then the president
and managers shall enter into bond conditioned for the pay-
ment of the damages assessed to the person or persons who
may be duly authorised to receive the same, and shall lodge
said bond and a copy of said valuation in the office of the clerk
of the county court, to be by him recorded, and upon such
bond, or any office copy thereof, suit or suits may be instituted
against the obligors therein named, by any person or persons
entitled to receive such damages, and the justice and sheriff
shall be entitled to receive the same fees for services under
this act, as they are allowed in similar cases, and the persona
summoned as jurymen to value the damages sustained as
aforesaid, shall each receive one dollar for every day he shall
attend for that purpose; which fees -and allowance shall be
paid fay the president and managers of the company, at whose
instance the persons may have been summoned, and the said
president, managers and company, and all the persons em-
ployed by ,them, shall have power to remove the said mate-
rials for making the road aforesaid, from and over any ground
not in grain or meadow, on their paying to the owner or own-
ers of such ground a reasonable compensation for any injury
or damages occasioned by such removal, to be ascertained by
a jury, in case the same cannot be obtained by consent or
agreement of the parties.
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SEC. 12. And be it enacted, That the said president, mana-
gers and company, shall cause the said road to be laid out and
opened sixty feet wide, and bridges to be erected over all the
waters crossing the same road, and shall cause eighteen feet
thereof, in breadth, at least, to be made an artificial road which
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