82 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAPTER 68.

AN ACT to repeal Sections nine hundred and
fifty-eight and nine hundred and fifty-nine of
an Act entitled an Act to ratify the purchase
and to provide for the organization and govern-
ment of Druid Hill and Patterson Parks, he-
longing to the City of Baltimore, by incorporat-
ing certain additional Sections in Article four
of the Code of Public Local Laws, passed Jan-
uary, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and to
re-enact the same with amendments.

Repealed and re-enacted.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Sections nine hundred and fifty- eight and nine hundred and fifty-nine, of an Act entitled an Act to ratify the purchase and to pro- vide for the organization and government of Druid Hill and Patterson Parks, belonging to the City of Baltimore, by incorporating certain additional Sections in Article four of the Code of Public Local Laws, passed January, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be and the same are hereby repealed and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

May condemn

958. If the said Park Commissioners should find that they cannot agree with the owner of any land or of any interest in land which may be found necessary to be added to Druid Hill Park or to Patterson Park; or if the owner thereof, or any of the owners thereof, at the time of the applica- tion, be a feme covert, under age, non compos mentis, or residing out of Baltimore County, or in the case of Patterson Park, out of Baltimore City, application may be made by the said Commis- sioners to any Justice of the Peace of Baltimore County, or in the case of Patterson Park, to any Justice of the Peace of Baltimore City, who shall thereupon issue his warrant, under hand and seal, directed to the Sheriff of the County, or in the case of Patterson Park, to the Sheriff of Balti- more City, directing him to summon a jury of twenty inhabitants of said county, or in the case of Patterson Park, of said city, not related to the parties, nor in any wise interested, to meet on the