494 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 213

Three-fourths of all road taxes assessed and collected under
State and county authority, upon property within the limits of
Highland Beach shall be paid by the county treasurer to the
treasurer of Highland Beach, and by the corporate authorities
of said Highland Beach shall be expended for roads, bridges
and sidewalks within its corporate limits.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners
shall have the power to establish the limit and width of the
streets of said town and to improve the same, and remove ob-
structions therefrom and may open new streets, lanes and al-
leys; that the said Commissioners shall have the power to pro-
vide for the payment of damages and expenses of opening,
widening, and laying out, grading, improving and keeping in
good condition the streets, lanes, alleys and sidewalks in said
town, and for the purpose may levy and assess the property
adjoining such improvements to the extent the same shall be
benefited thereby, provided that the property owners may appeal
from their decision in like manner as other similar appeals are
taken to the Circuit Court of Anne Arundel County.

SEC. 18. And be it enacted, That if in opening or laying
out any new street or alley, the said Commissioners cannot
agree with the owner or owners of any land or property wanted
for the purpose, for the purchase, use or occupation of the
same, or if the owner is a feme covert, under age or non compos
mentis, or out of Anne Arundel County, application may be
made to any justice of the peace for said county, who shall
thereupon issue under his hand and seal, directed to the sheriff
of said county, requiring him to summon a jury of twenty
inhabitants of said county, of legal age, not related to the
parties or in any wise interested, and from such panel of
twenty 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 jurors, and the remaining twelve 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 or more than twenty days after the issuing of the same;
that the sheriff shall, before the jury shall proceed to act, ad-
minister an oath to each that he will justly and impartially
value the damages the owner will sustain by the use or occupa-
tion of the property for the uses hereinbefore 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 said streets and alleys, through, along or near to