The PRESIDING OFFICER. This amendment will be laid by for the time being inform ally, if there be no objection. The Chair bears no objection. The next amendment was in section [six] ten, to strike out from line one to line 11 the following words: I Said company is hereby authorised an empowered to purchase.lease.receive, and hold rea estate and any other property which shall be deemed necessary for the useof said company; but all such real estate or other property. whet or public or private shall be acquired by purchaseof the same upon terms to be agreed upon betWcensaid company and the owners of any property which said company may desire to leaseor purchase for the purposesaforesaid; and in cue the owners of such property cannot agree upon the terms of the sale therco or and in lieu of these words to insert: The said company are hereby authorized and cm powered to take. purchase and hold for the purposesof this act. somuch real estateand other property as shall be necessarily required for the proper construction of the canal and sewer aforesaid.nnd for the construction of all properand convenient basins. locks. reservoirs. doc s, and wharves, to be connected withsaideaniil and sewer and where the said company shall not be able to procure suoh real mate by purchase from the owner thereof or the owner thereof. The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment was in section [six] ten, line 38, to strike out “and and to insert: But no such inquisition shall be had until after tendays notice thereof has been served on tho owner of the real estate so to be taken. when he resides in the DistCol or by publication of notice in one or more of the daily newspaperspublished in the city of Washington for 20 days where such owner resides beyond the said District. When the owner is a lane covert.the notice shall be to her and her husband: when he is a mine r. to his iguardian; and when he is nontamponmenus.to his committee or the person having the chargeafhis estate. the The amendment was agreed to. The next amendment. was in lines 51,52, and 53 of section [six] ten, to strike out the words: and in case there be good causeIshownnsnidin pest may be set aside and said chief iustice shall met another inquisition to be taken in the manner above deseribed and iti lieu of them to insert: Where good cause is thus shown. the said chief justice shall setaside said inquest and a point another similar commission. who shall on ify in the lame manner and whose inquisition shall be taken. returned.filed and confirmed or set.aside for good causeshown.in the same manner as the 1st inquisition was taken. returned. filed and confirmed or cataside and such commissionand inquisitioushull be renewed as often on may be necessaryuntil the mquisition madeshall beconfirmed. The amendment was agreed to.