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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Limits.

124. They shall have power to determine the
limits of said town and extend the same if they
deem it expedient, and they shall file with the
clerk of the Circuit Court for Cecil County a
description of the boundaries by them established,
which shall be deemed a record of the boundaries
of the town.

Open streets.

125. They shall have power to establish the
limits and width of the streets of said town, and
to straighten the same, and to remove obstructions
therefrom, and may open new streets, lanes and
alleys in said town.

Damages.

126. They shall have power to provide for the
payment of damages and expenses of opening,
widening, straightening, laying out and grading
streets in said town, by levying and assessing the
same generally upon the whole of the assessable
property of said town, or specially upon the assess-
able property of persons benefitted thereby.

Condemn.

127. If on opening or laying out any new street,
lane, or alley, the said Commissioners cannot
agree with the owners of any land or property
wanted for the purpose, for the purchase, use or
occupation of the same, or if the owner thereof be
a feme covert, under age, non compos mentis, or out
ot said County, application may be made to any
Justice of the Peace of said county, who shall
thereupon issue his warrant, under his hand and

Jury,

seal, directed to the Sheriff of said county, requir-
ing him to summon a jury, of twenty inhabitants
of said county, not related to the parties nor in
any wise interested, to meet on the land to be
valued, on a day to be named in said warrant, not
less than ten nor more than twenty after the issu-
ing of the same.

Sheriff to sum-
mon.

128. If at the said time and place any of the
jurors summoned do not attend, the Sheriff shall
immediately summon as many jurors as shall be
necessary, with the jurors in attendance, to furnish
a panel of twenty jurors, and from them each
party or his agent, or if either party be not pre-
sent, in person or by agent, the Sheriff for him
may strike off four jurors, and the remaining
twelve shall act as a jury of inquest of damages.