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CHAP. 363.
Passed May
31, 1852.
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CHAPTER 363.
AN ACT to amend the Charter of the Williams-
port and Greencastle Turnpike Road Company,
incorporated by an Act entitled, an act to incor-
porate a Company to make a Turnpike flood from
Williamsport, in Washington county, to the Penn-
sylvania Line, in the, direction of Greencastle, in
Franklin county, State of Pennsylvania, passed at
December session, eighteen hundred and forty-nine,
chapter three hundred and seventy-seven.
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Vacancy—
how filled.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That in case a vacancy or vacancies
shall occur in the board of managers of the Williams-
port and Greencastle Turnpike road company, by death,
resignation, or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the re-
maining members of said board, or a majority of them,
to fill such vacancy or vacancies, in such manner as
may be deemed most expedient by them, the said
power, right and privilege not having been conferred
upon the said company by its original charter.
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Condemna-
tion of land.
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That, the president and
managers of said company, or a majority of them, or
any person or persons authorised by a majority of
them, may agree with the owner or owners of any land,
required for the construction, use and occupation of
said road, and if they cannot agree, or if the owner or
owners thereof shall reside out of the State, application
may be made to any justice of the peace of Washing-
ton county, who shall thereupon issue his warrant, un-
der hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of the county,
requiring him to summon a jury of twenty inhabitants
of said county, not, in any wise, interested, to meet on
the land or near 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 the same, and
if, at the said time place, twenty jurors do not attend,
the said sheriff shall immediately summon as many
jurors as may be necessary, with the jurors in attend-
ance, to furnish a panel of twenty jurors, and from
them, each party, his, its, her or their agent, or the
sheriff for him, it, her or them, may strike off four
jurors, and the remaining twelve shall act as the jury of
the inquest of damages, and before they so act, the
sheriff shall administer to each of them an oath or
affirmation, as the case may be, that he will impartially
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