Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1876-05-19
NIIAPTER So.

ty seven, entitled "an act incorporating
company to open, in part, and improve
the road from Frederick city, in Freder-
ick county, to the Spout Spring on the
Hamburg road, passing Bradrup's Saw
Mill" as revived 10y an act passed at the
Januarp session, eighteen hundred and
sixty-eight, chapter two hundred and
thirteen, entitled IAN act to revive an
act incorporating a company to open, in
part, and to improve the road from
Frederick city, in Frederick county, to
the Spout Spring on the Hamburg road,
passing Bradrup's Saw Mill, passed at
the January session eighteen hundred
and sixty, chapter two hundred and SIX
ty scvcn,' and as amended by the act
passed at January session, eighteen hun
drcd and seventy, chapter two hundred
and scventy-scven, entitled IAN act to
repeal SO much of section twelve chap
ter two hundred and siXty-scven, of the
act passed March eighteen hundred and
sixty, entitled IAN act to incorporate a
company to open III part and improve
the road from Frederick city, in Freder-
ick county, to the Spout Spring, &c, as
relates of toll, and enact the following
instead, viz:
SECTION 1. BE it cnactrd by tie General
1ssembly If Mn7YlaAd, That it shall and
may be lawful for the President and Direc-
tors of the Frederick City and Catoctin
Mountain Road Company, and those who
may be in their employment, for that pur,
pose, to enter upon all and every of the
lands and enclosures along the route OF
said road, and adjacent thereto, for the
purpose of obtaining materials necessary
TO keep said road in repair, and the said
President and Directors shall have, and
are harcby given all the power for the
keeping of said road in repair, that wcrt
vested in them for the purposes of con
structon by the acts to which this Act Is
supplement-
SEC. .. and he 1t enacted, That if the
said President and Directors cannot agree
with any of the proprictors, owner or own
crs of any land, that may be selected an'
required by them in constructing the sale
road authorized by said original Act OF
in extending the same as authorized bN
this Act, or for any mstcrial, such as stone
gravel, timber, Nc, required for the pur
pose Of constructing or repairing said roa'
as authorized by said original Act, or il
extending the same authorized by TIM
Act, or in case the owner or owners there
g ,,,innrr ipJ,1 p1rppf N M rJJDJJH
mfntis, or not resident of the County o
Frederick, it shall and may be lawful on
application of said President and Drcc
tors, for any Jn:ticc of the Peace in an;
for Frederick county, to issue his Warran
to the Sheriff of Frederick county, rcquir
ing him to summon twenty persons quail
fed to act as jurors, not interested in TIL
property to be valued, to meet at or nca
the property to be valued, on a day namet
in said warrant, not less than ten mormon
than twenty days after the issueing of thu
same, and if at the the time named in salt
warrant any of the said jurors summoned
do not attend, the Sheriff shall immediate
" summon as any more quailCd to act n
Jurors nay be necessary, with the Juror
in attendance, to form Il panel OF tWent,
Jurors, and from them each party or hl
agent, or either party be not present. il
person or by agent, the Sheriff, fer sucl
party, shall strike off four jurors, and thu
remaining persons shall act as the iury 70
the inquest Of damages; that before th'
said jury shall proceed TO act, the SherIt
shall administer TO each of them an oati
that the,,..will justly and impartialIy value
the damages which the owner Shall sustain
by the condemnation Of said property re
uuiacd ny the said President and Directors
for the purposes aforesaid
SEC. 3. AMI be il enacted That the sale
Jury Shall summon such witnesses as eth
cr party may require, and examine them
on oath, in relation to the party To be con
dcmncd, and they shall reduce the tcstlmo
ny to writing, if any is taken by them; anC
after the testimony is closed and withou
any unnecessary delay, and before proceed
ing to the examination ofany other claims
they shall ascertain and determine The
compensation which ought to be made by
tnc said President and Directors to tht
parties owning said property, according to
Their respective interests in it, for taking
the same for the purposes Of said road ,an'
the said jury shall reduce their inqustlol
~ ai1' ~ "n,' i "''1 t no' snn,iT ~ th,
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inonsition shall he confirmed hy s,id Cour
Of thn fret tn,m held after fljnr the same
miles, cause he shown the CONTRARY, motto,
bnino first given to the opposite party, OF