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 ing and fixing the amount thereof, the actual benefit which will accrue to the owner, from conducting the said canal through, or erecting any of the said works upon his land, and to regulate their verdict thereby, except that no assessment shall require any such owner to pay or contribute any thing where such benefit shall exceed, in the estimate of the jury, the value and damages ascertained as aforesaid; and the inquisition thereupon taken, shall be signed by the sheriff, and some twelve or more of the jury, and returned by the sheriff to the clerk or prothonotary of his county, and unless good cause be shown against the said inquisition, it shall be affirmed by the court and recorded; but if the said inquisition should be set aside, or if from any cause, no inquisition shall be returned to such court within a reasonable time, the said court may at its discretion, as often as may be necessary, direct another inquisition to be taken in the manner above described, and upon every such valuation, the jury is hereby directed to describe and ascertain the bounds of the land by them valued, and the quality and