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Sec. 4. Be it enacted, That the President and Directors of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to increase the capital stock of the said Company to the sum or amount of four millions of dollars, in the mode and manner provided for in the ninth Section of the Act passed January Ses- sion, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, (Chapter one hundred and ninety-four,) entitled "An Act to incorporate the Baltimore and Potomac Rail- road Company."	Increase capi- tal.
Sec. 5. Be it enacted, That the thirteenth Sec- tion of the Act passed at January Session, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, (Chapter one hundred and ninety-four,) entitled " An Act to incorporate the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company," be and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted to read as follows:		Re-enacted.
Sec. 6. Be it enacted, That the said President and Directors, or their agent or agents authorized by them, may agree with the owner or owners of any land, earth, gravel, stone, timber, streams, or materials, or any improvements which may be wanted for the proper construction or repair of any of said Roads, or any of their works, for the pur- chase, and use, and occupation or diversion of the same; and if they cannot agree, or if the owner or owners of any of them be an infant, feme covert, who is not possessed of the property to her sole and separate use, or authorized to contract in refer- ence to the same, non compos mentis, or out of the county where such property wanted may lie when such property may be wanted, or for any other cause, be legally incapable of contracting, appli- cation may be made by the said Company to any		To purchase materials.
Justice of the Peace of such county, who shall thereupon issue his warrant, under his hand and seal, to the Sheriff of the county, requiring him to summon a jury of twenty of the inhabitants of said county above the age of twenty-one years, not related to the parties, nor in any wise inter- ested, to meet on the lands, or near the materials, or other property wanted, on a day named in said warrant, not less than ten nor more than twenty days after issuing the same, and if at said time and place any of the said jurors summoned do not		May condemn.