512 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

708. If any clerk of the market, or any other person or
officer appointed by or under the provisions of this Article,
shall demand, receive or collect any tax or other charges from
any person attending the markets of said City as provided in
the preceding section, who shall be standing in the open streets,
and who does not occupy any place or stand in the market,
he shall be liable to a fine of twenty dollars for each offence, to
be recovered before any Justice of the Peace as small debts,
one-half to the informer and the other half to the State.

709. The City may agree with the owners of any land or
other property which it may deem expedient to purchase
and hold, for the purpose of extending any market; and if they
cannot agree, or if there be an incapacity in the owners to con-
tract in relation thereto, or if such owners be unknown or out of
the State, any Justice of the Peace for said City, on application
of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, may issue his war-
rant to the Sheriff of said City, commanding him to summon
from the said City a jury of twenty freeholders, inhabitants of
said City, not related to the owners or persons interested in the
real estate or other property, to meet on the premises on some
certain day to be named in said warrant, of which said warrant
and the day therein named for the meeting of the jury, five
days' notice shall be given previous to such day by the Mayor
and City Council of Baltimore to every owner or person inter-
ested, and left at his place of abode.

710. If any infant or lunatic or feme covert be the owner
in whole or in part of the property subject to be condemned,
the notice shall be given to his or her guardian, trustee, com-
mittee or husband, as directed in the preceding section.

711. If such owner, guardian, trustee, committee or hus-
band, resides out of the State, or is unknown, such notice shall
be published not less than eight weeks, successively, in some
one or more of the daily newspapers of said City.

712. The owner of such property, or the guardian, trustee,