130 LAWS OF MARYLAND [CH. 36

12.

[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 disposed 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. J

[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 amounts of damages or compensation
awarded to each of said defendants by the verdict of said jury
and his proper proportion of the cost; provided, also, if said]
// the verdict of the jury shall be for the petitioner on the right
to condemn and assessing damages to the defendants, but the defen-
dants, or some of the defendants, are unknown owners, or the un-
known 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 entitled by the verdict, and not in favor of each of them,
against the petitioner for the amount of damages, or compensation,
awarded to said defendants by said verdict of said jury and costs,
and it shall be proper in such a case to describe such owners as
unknown, or the unknown heirs or a deceased owner, as the case may
be, in said verdict and judgment.

26.

Whenever land sought to be condemned under this article lies
partly in one county and partly in another, or partly in a county
and partly in the City of Baltimore, the proceedings therefor
may be commenced in either county or in the City of Baltimore, and
that court shall have jurisdiction in which proceedings shall have
been first commenced, provided that in case of condemnation pro-
ceedings instituted in a court in any county where part only of
the lands lie, a copy of the petition, docket entries and judgment
certified under the official seal of the clerk of the court in
which the proceedings were commenced, shall be filed in the clerk's
office of the court of the county or of the City of Baltimore, where
any other part of such lands only lie; and on receipt of such copies
by the clerk of such court, it shall be his duty forthwith to [enter
and index the said petition and other proceedings in his docket, and
to record the same as though said case had originated in his court,