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Lands fount
necessary to be
added to the
Park — how
obtained.
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958. If the said Park commission shall find
that they cannot, agree with the owner of any
land, or of any interest in land which may be
found necessary to be added to "Druid Hill Park,"
or if the owner thereof or any of the owners thereof,
at the time of application, be a feme covert, un-
der age, non compos mentis, or residing out of
Baltimore county, application may be made by the
said commissioners, to any Justice of the Peace
of Baltimore county, who shall thereupon issue his
warrant, under hand and seal, difected to the
Sheriff of the county, directing him to summon a
jury of twenty inhabitants of said county, not re-
lated to the parties, nor in anywise interested, to
meet on the land to be valued on a day named in
said warrant, not less than ten nor more than
twenty days after issuing the same, and if at said
time and place, any of said jurors summoned do
not attend, the said Sheriff shall immediately
summon as many jurors as may be necessary, with
the jurors in attendance, to furnish a panel of
twenty jurors in attendance, cind from them each
party or his agent, or if either be not present, in
person or by agent, the Sheriff for him, may strike
off four jurors, and the remaining twelve shall
abt as the jury of inquest; and before they act as
such, the Sheriff shall administer to each of them
an oath or affirmation, as the case may be, that he
will justly and impartially value the land required
by said Mayor and City Council for the Park
aforesaid; and the said jury shall reduce their in-
quisition to writing, and shall sign and seal the
same, and it shall then be returned by the said
Sherfff to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Balti-
more county, to be filed in his Court, for confir-
mation by said Court at its next term, if no suffi-
cient cause to the contrary be shown, and when
returned, shall be recorded by the said clerk at the
expense of the said Mayor and City Council; but,
if set aside, the court may direct another inquisi-
tion to he taken, in the manner above prescribed;
and such inquisition shall describe the land taken,
and the quantity or duration of the interest in the
same, valued for the Mayor and City Council, and
such valuation, when paid or tendered to the
owner of said land, or his or her legal representa-
tives, shall entitle the said Mayor and City Coun-
cil to the estate or interest so valued, as fully as
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