PRIVATE ACTS. 1471

cases describe the property taken, or the bounds of the land
condemned and the quality or duration of the interest on the
same valued for the company, and such valuation when paid or
tendered to the owner or owners of the property or land, his,
her or their legal representatives shall entitle the said company
to the estates and interest in the same thus valued, and if it or
they have been legally conveyed by the owner or owners of the
same, and the valuation, if not received when tendered, may at
auy time thereafter be received without costs from the company
by the owner or owners, or his, her, or their legal representatives,
and the sheriff shall keep the jury together for a reasonable
time until they shall agree upon and sign and seal said inquisi-
tion, and in case it shall happen that the jury can not agree
after being kept together, as aforesaid, the sheriff may, in his
discretion, discharge the said jury, and without any further
warrant from a justice of the peace, shall within five days
thereafter summon another jury of twenty inhabitants as afore-
said, who were not on the former jury, and the same proceed-
ings shall be had in all respects as hereinbefore provided, and
in case of a second or other disagreement of the jury, the same
proceedings shall be had until a verdict or inquisition shall be
made or returned as aforesaid, but nothing herein contained
shall authorize said company to take private property for its
use without just compensation therefor as agreed upon between
the parties or found by a jury as aforesaid being first paid or
tendered to the party or parties entitled to such compensation.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said bridge
when built and completed, and the land connected with the
same and its appurtenances and all the profits, tolls and fran-
chises pertaining to the same, shall be vested in the said
Chesaco Park Bridge Company, and it shall be lawful for the
directors of said company at all times hereafter to demand and
receive such reasonable tolls for the passage and use of said
bridge by any person or persons as the said directors may
from time to time fix and agree upon, and they may do all
things requisite or necessary to regulate the use of said bridge
and the immediate ways thereto by the public.

SEC. 9. And be it further enacted. That the said directors
may make and declare a dividend or dividends of the net
profits of said bridge from time to time as they may see fit.

SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That if any person or
persons shall wilfully injure any part or parcel of said bridge,
or obstruct the free passage over the same, or the ways lead-
ing thereto, or shall attempt to pass over said bridge without
paying the toll for such passage authorized as aforesaid, he,
she or they shall and pay to the State of Maryland for every