LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

holders shall determine it, forever thereafter esteemed and
taken to be navigable as a public highway, free for the trans-
portation of all goods, commodities and produce whatever, on
payment of the tolls to be imposed by the president and
directors under the power vested in them by this Act.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That so soon as any part of said

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work is completed and open for navigation, the said company
is hereby authorized and empowered to collect tolls, and exer-
cise as full and complete jurisdiction over the same as if the
whole was completed ; and the rate of tolls charged, if the
same is open to public use, shall not exceed fifteen cents per
ton for one passage, single trip, and not a round trip, through
the entire length of said canal, from Curtis creek to Severn
river.

Collect tolls.

SEC 1. And be it enacted. That it shall and may be lawful
for the said president and directors or a majority of them, to
agree with the owners of any land through which the said
canal is intended to pass, for the purchase or use and occupa-
tion thereof, and in case of disagreement, or in case the owner
thereof shall be a feme covert, under age, non compos mentis,
or out of the State or county, on application to a justice of the
peace of the county in which said land shall be, the said jus
tice of the peace shall issue hie warrant, under his hand, to the
sheriff of the county to summon a venire of twenty inhabit
ants of the county, qualified under the laws of this State to
act as jurymen, not related to the parties, nor in any manner
interested, to meet on the land to be valued at a day to be ex-
pressed in the warrant, not less than ten nor more than twenty
days thereafter, and the sheriff upon receiving the said war-
rant, shall forthwith summon the said jury, and when met, shall
administer an oath or affirmation to every juryman who
shall appear and be chosen for jurymen by the company or
the other parties in interest, being not less than twelve in num-
ber, that he will faithfully, justly and impartially value the
land, and all damages the owner thereof shall sustain by cut-
ting the canal through such land, or the partial or temporary
appropriation, use or occupation of such land, according to the
best of his skill and judgment, and that in such valuation he
will not spare any person for favor or affection, nor any person
wrong for malice, hatred or ill-will ; and that in order to obtain
said jury of twelve out of the talismen summoned, the com-
pany hereby incorporated shall have the right to strike off four
names, and the party or parties whose land is being valued and
condemned shall hare the right to strike off four, and if either

Jury of con-
demnation.