HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 319
CHAPTER 345.
(House Bill 358)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Sections 11
and 13 of Article 33A of Flack's Annotated Code of the
Public General Laws of Maryland (1939 Edition), entitled
"Eminent Domain", so as to provide for the form of a ver-
dict and judgment and for paying the amount thereof into
Court where there is an unknown owner, or heirs of an un-
known owner, in proceedings for the condemnation of lands.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That Sections 11 and 13 of Article 33A of Flack's Anno-
tated Code of the Public General Laws of Maryland (1939 Edi-
tion), be, and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted,
with amendments, to read as follows:

11. Any verdict rendered by said jury may be excepted to
within the time allowed by the rules of Court in other civil
cases; or within the time of said rules of Court, either party
may file a motion for a new trial, or in arrest of judgment, or
make any other proper motion applicable to such case as in
ordinary civil cases, and said motion shall be heard and dis-
posed of by the Court as speedily as reasonably possible.

Upon any such exceptions or motions, if the Court shall set
aside the verdict of the jury, it shall forthwith within the time
hereinbefore provided, set a new day for the trial of the same,
and upon said day so set, said Court shall proceed with the
selection of a jury as aforesaid, and a new trial of the case, in
all respects as hereinbefore provided, and so on until a final
verdict in said case is obtained.

Upon any such verdict becoming final, if the same shall be
for the defendant, upon the right to condemn, the Court shall
forthwith enter a judgment in said case for the defendant with
costs, but if said verdict shall be for the petitioner on the right
to condemn and assessing damages to the defendants, the said
Court upon said verdict shall forthwith enter a judgment in
favor of each defendant against the petitioner for the amount
of damages or compensation awarded to each of said defend-
ants by the verdict of said jury and his proper proportion of
the costs; provided, also, if said verdict shall be for the peti-
tioner on the right to condemn and assessing damages to the
defendants, but the defendants, or some of the defendants, are
unknown owners, or the unknown heirs of a deceased owner,
then the jury, by its verdict, shall assess damages to all the
defendants found to be entitled to the same and not to each of
them, and the Court upon said verdict shall forthwith enter a
judgment in favor of all the defendants found to be so en-