T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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rine and of Daniel Alder, thence along said dividing
line so far as it extends, thence across the land of said
Perine, until it reaches the southern extremity of a pri-
vate road, now used by said Perine, through a part of
his land, thence running with or along said private road
to the dividing between said Perine and W. C. Wilson,
thence along said dividing, line, till it reaches the divid-
ing line between the lands of said Wilson and Miss
Ann Price, thence along said dividing line till it reaches
the dividing line between the lands of said Wilson and
of the late Daniel Holt, thence along said dividing line
to the public road running by the Govanstown Aca-
demy, thence across said road to the dividing line be-
tween the lands of Matthew T. Gosnell and Augustus
W. Bradford, thence along said dividing line until it
reaches the dividing line between the lands of said
Bradford and I. McKim Marriott, thence along said
dividing line until it reaches the dividing line between
the lands of said Marriott and of John Beatty and
others, thence along said dividing line to the lands of
Edward Sweeny, thence across the corner of said
Sweeney's land to the terminus, aforesaid, on said
Powder Mill Road.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the president
and managers of said company may agree with the
owners of land for the purchase and occupation of the
land required for said road and also, for the purchase of
stone, gravel, earth or timber required in the construc-
tion thereof, and in all cases where they are unable to
agree with such owner or owners or where he or they
shall be a feme covert, infant or non compos mentis,
the said president upon giving notice in writing of not
less than twenty days to the parlies interested may ap-
ply to a justice of the peace of Baltimore county, who
shall thereupon issue his warrant to the sheriff of said
county, commanding him to summon twenty disinter-
ested persons qualified to act as jurors in the circuit
court of Baltimore county, to meet upon the land, and
after four of the jurors so summoned are stricken off
the pannel by the president of said company or his
agent and four others by the person or persons interes-
ted in said land or his or her agent or in the absence or
refusal to strike off such persons or their agents, four to
be stricken off by the said sheriff, the sheriff shall
qualify the twelve remaining jurors either by oath or
affirmation as the case may be, justly, truly and impar-
tially to value the damages which may be sustained by
the owner or owners of said land or material required

Condemnation
of land.