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appointed for that purpose in said warrant and each of them having then and there taken an oath administered by me that he would faithfully justly and impartially value the said lands and all damages the said Emerentienne Corbally, as owner thereof should sustain by cutting the said canal through the same and by the use and occupation thereof by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company aforesaid in perpetuity according to the best of his skill and judgment and that in such valuation he would not share any person for favour or affection, nor any person grieve for malice, hatred or ill will. And all the provisions of the Charter of the said Company in that behalf having been duly complied with, the said jurors did then and there make a valuation and a judgment of Whereupon I herewith damages as in said warrant is directed. return the inquisition then and there taken in that behalf, signed by myself and the jurors, then and there met and sworn as aforesaid.

Given under my hand and seal this fourteenth day of June 1832.

s/Peter Brenyle, (seal) Sheriff of Fred. County Maryland.

State of Maryland, Frederick County, set:

An inquisition taken at Frederick County aforesaid, on the first day of May, in the Year of Our Lord, Eighteen Hundred and Thirty two, before Peter Brenyle, Esquire, Sheriff of Frederick County aforesaid on the oath of Moses Norman, John Brengle, Abraham Kemp, John Derr, John H. Harding, Daniel Routzen, John Young, William Lynch, Henry Culler, William Motter, George Bowlus, George Shafer, Jacob Thomas, Daniel Slifer and George Houch, who, having been summoned by said sheriff, together with Michael Thomas, Valentine Adams, and Peter Coblentz, who were also summoned, but failed to attend and met on the land, hereinafter described, of Mrs. Emerentienne Corbally to be valued for the use of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, in pursuance of a Warrant for that purpose issues to the said sheriff by George Rohr Esquire, a Justice of the Peace of the State of Maryland in and for the said County, on the 19th day of April in the Year aforesaid and every serving man aforesaid having first taken an Oath, administered by the said sheriff that he would faithfully, fully and impartially value the said land an all damages which the said Emerentienne Corbally, the owner thereof, should sustain by cutting the said canal through the same, according to the best of his skill and judgment, and that in such valuation he would not spare any person for favour or affection, nor any person grieve for malice, hatred or ill will, which said land, be valued and described as hereinafter set forth, being required, by the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, for its use, as of an absolute estate in perpetuity, Situate in Frederick County aforesaid, and being part of a tract of land, called 11 Hawkin's merry peep-a-day, 11 is bounded as follows, that is to say,
Beginning at a stone now planted on the berm side of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal on the divisional line between said Emerentienne Corbally and and the town lots of Berlin and