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STATE OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 137.

owner a larger amount of damages than was awarded by the
first inquisition, the Court may, in its discretion, order the
costs of the second or 'other inquisitions to be paid by the

Property to
be described,

owner or owners of said land or materials condemned ; and the
inquisition shall in all cases describe the property taken or the
bounds of the land condemned, and the quality or direction
of the interest in the same and the valuation the jury have
put upon it, and the valuation the jury have put upon the
benefit which the owner of the condemned land will derive
from the proposed improvement, and the valuation of the
land less the valuation of the benefits, when paid or tendered
to the owner or owners of the property, his, her or their legal
representatives shall entitle the Mayor and City Council of
Havre de Grace to the estate and interest in the same thus
valued as if it had been legally conveyed by the owner or owners
of the same, and the valuation, if not received when tendered
may at any time thereafter be received without cost from the
Mayor and City Council by the owner or owners, his, her or
their legal representatives, and the said valuation and the costs
and other expenses of said condemnation shall be paid from
the treasury of the city, and the said sheriff shall keep said
jury together for a reasonable time until they shall agree
upon and sign and seal said inquisition ; and in case it shall
so happen that the jury cannot agree after being kept together
as aforesaid, the said sheriff may, in his discretion, discharge

New Jury
summoned.

the said jury and without further warrant from a justice of
the peace shall, within tive days thereafter, summon another
jury of twenty inhabitants as aforesaid not upon the former
jury ; and the said proceedings shall be had in all respects as
hereinbefore provided, and in case of a second or other dis-
agreement of the jury, the same proceedings shall be had
until a verdict of inquisition shall be made and returned as
aforesaid.

Construction
of Act.

175 C. Nothing in this Act shall be held to authorize the
Mayor and City Council of Havre de Grace to regulate the
rates of charges by the Havre de Grace Water Company of
Harford County for water supplied by it to the inhabitants of
Havre de Grace, nor the rates of charge by the Havre de
Grace Electric Company of Harford County for light supplied
by it to the inhabitants of Havre de Grace, nor to authorize
the condemnation of the plant and property of either of said
companies.

Repeal.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all laws or parts of laws
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act are hereby
repealed so far as the same effect the provisions of this Act.