900 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

inhabitants of said county of legal age, not related to the
parties or in any wise interested, and from such panel of twenty
(20) jurors, each party or his agent, or if either be not present
in person or by agent, the sheriff for him, may strike off four (4)
jurors, and the remaining twelve (12) shall act as a jury of
inquest of damages to meet on the land or near the property to
be valued, on a day to be named in the warrant, not less than
ten (10) or more than twenty (20) days after the issuing of
the same, that the sheriff shall, before the jury proceed to act,
administer an oath to each that be will justly and impartially
value the damage the owners will sustain by the use or occu-
pation of the property for the use hereinafter mentioned. That
the jury in estimating the damages shall take into considera-
tion the benefits resulting to the owner from the opening and
laying out of such streets and alleys, through, along or near to
the property of said owner; and the jury shall reduce their
inquisition to writing, and shall sign and seal the same, and
it shall then be returned by the sheriff to the clerk of the Cir-
cuit Court for Kent county, and shall be confirmed by the said
court at its next session, if no sufficient cause to the contrary
be shown, and when confirmed shall be recorded by said clerk
at the expense of the said Commissioners, and if the said inqui-
sition shall be set aside by the Circuit Court of Kent county,
the said court may direct another to be taken in the same
manner as the first. That every inquisition shall describe
the property taken or the bounds of the land condemned, and
the quantity or duration of the interest of the same therein
valued, and such valuation, when paid or tendered to the
owner or owners of the property taken, or his legal represen-
tatives, shall entitle the said Commissioners to the estate, use
and interest in the same so valued for the purpose aforesaid as
fully as if the same had been conveyed by the owner or his
legal representative.

SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall have the power to license and regulate the sweeping of
chimneys, and fix the rates thereof; to regulate the sweeping of
any chimney, by neglect of which the said town may be en-
dangered.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners shall
have the power to enact ordinances for the prevention of cruelty
to animals, and fix the penalties for the violation thereof, not
inconsistent with the laws of the State.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall have the power to establish regulations for the prevention
and extinguishment of fire, to appoint firemen, and appoint,