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not related or in any wise interested to meet on the land
or near to the property or materials to be valued on a
day named in said warrant not less than ten nor more
than twenty days after the issuing of the same, and it 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 at-
tendance, to furnish a panel of twenty jurors in attend-
ance, and from them each party or its, his, her or their
agent, and if either he not present in person or by agent,
the sheriff for him, her, it or them, may strike off four
jurors, and the remaining twelve shall act as the jury of
inquest of damages; and before they act as such, the said
sheriff shall administer to each of them on oath or affir-
mation as the case may be, that he will justly and im-
partially value the damage which the owner or owners
will sustain by the use or occupation of the same requir-
ed by the company, and the jury in estimating such da-
mages shall, take into the estimate, the benefit resulting
to the said owner or owners from the completion of the
works of said company, but only in extinguishment of the
claim for damages, and the said jury shall reduce their
inquisition to willing, and shall sign and seal the same,
and it shall then be returned by said sheriff to the clerk
of Allegany county, and by him filed in his court, and
shall be confirmed by said court at its next session, if no
sufficient cause to the contrary be shewn; and when
confirmed, shall be recorded by said clerk at the expense
of said company, but if set aside, the said court may di-
rect another inquisition to be taken in the manner above
prescribed; and such inquisition shall describe the pro-
perty taken or the bounds of lands condemned, and the
quantity or duration of the interest in the same, valued
for the company, and such valuation when paid or ten-
dered to the owner or owners of said property or his, her
or their legal representatives, shall entitle the said com-
pany to the estate and interest in the same thus valued
as fully as if it had been conveyed by the owner or own-
ers of the same, and the valuation, if not received when
tendered, may at any time thereafter be received from the
company without costs, by the said owner or owners, or
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Legal capaci-
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his, her or their legal representative or representatives.
SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That said company shall
have full power and authority, to make and lay conduits
or tunnels, for the conveyance of said water under and
along the streets, lanes, alleys and side-pavements, or
any of them, of the town of Cumberland, for the purpose
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