The corporation may agree with the owners for the lands or property of any kind whatsoever, or interest therein, necessary for the abutments of the bridge and the lands necessary for the digging, constructing and maintaining of a canal, and for roads and ways thereto, and for earth or stone required in the construction of said bridge or of said canal and of said ways, approaches, terminals, docks and wharves; and the rights acquired by agreement shall be conveyed by deed, duly acknowledged and recorded. In case of failure to agree, or of disability of the owners to contract, or of their absence from the State, the corporation may obtain the lands, or property of any kind, or interest therein, earth and stone by condemnation. The corporation may proceed to condemn under the provisions of Title 12 of the Real Property Article.