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T. WATKINS LIGON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
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rights, powers and authority which are necessary to
enable it to locate, construct and maintain such rail road
or rail roads as the directors may deem necessary for
the convenient transaction of its business, beginning at
or near the mines of said company, and running to such
point or points in Allegany county, as will enable said
company to connect the same with any other rail roads
now constructed, or which may hereafter be constructed
and may at any point on its own lands, or upon any
other lands which it may acquire by gift, purchase or
condemnation connect such rail roads with any other
rail road now constructed, or to be constructed thereon,
and in lieu of constructing any such rail roads as here-
in authorised, or in addition thereto, the said company
may purchase, lease, hold and maintain any other rail
road or rail roads, or other roads or ways, water cour-
ses or channels of transportation already constructed or
hereafter to be constructed, with all the rights, powers
and franchises connected therewith.
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SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the said compa-
ny in locating and constructing any rail road or rail
roads authorised by this act, shall have the right, if they
cannot agree with the owners of any land, earth, gra-
vel, stone or materials, wanted for the construction or
repairs of such road or roads for the purchase, use, or
occupation of the same, or if the owner or owners, or
any of them, be a feme covert, under age, non com-
pos mentis, or out of the county, application may be
made to any justice of the peace for Allegany county,
who shall thereupon issue his warrant under his hand
and seal, directed to the sheriff of said county, requiring
him to summon a jury of twenty inhabitants of said
county, not related to the parties, nor in any wise in-
terested, to meet on the land or near to the other proper-
ty 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 if at the same time
and place, any of said jurors should not attend, the
sheriff shall immediately summon as many jurors as
may be necessary with those in attendance, to furnish
a panel of twenty jurors, and from them, each party,
his, her, or their agents, or if either be not present in
person or by agent, the sheriff for him, or them,
may strike off four jurors, and the remaining twelve
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Condemnation
of land.
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shall act as the jury of inquest of damages; and before
they act as such, the said sheriff shall administer to
each of them an oath or affirmation, as the case may
be, that he will justly and impartially value the da-
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Oath.
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