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Authority to
appoint
three disin-
terested
persons to
assess
damages, etc.
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116 F. Whenever the said commissioners shall decide that it
is expedient that any road, street, lane or alley, as aforesaid,
within the said corporate limits, shall be opened, widened and
straightened, changed or closed, or make subways, as provided
in section 102, unless they shall be able to make satisfactory
contracts necessary for the same, or unless the necessary lands
or easements in or over the same shall be donated for the
purposes, they shall appoint three disinterested persons, resi-
dents of the town, to assess all damages done, suffered and
incurred by the opening, widening, straightening, changing or
closing of any such highways, streets, lanes or alleys or the
construction of any such subways, and any benefits or advant-
ages accruing to any person by the same, or any one of them,
as the case may be; the said commissioners shall, within ten
days after notification of their appointment, take an oath
before a justice of the peace of the town that they will faith-
fully, fairly and without partiality or prejudice value and assess
the loss and damage to be suffered and incurred by and the
benefits to accrue to any person interested in the property over
which the highways, roads or streets, alleys or lanes are
to be opened, closed, straightened, widened or changed,
or such subways to be cut or constructed; and they
shall give at least ten days' notice by notice posted at
the court-house door of the time and place of meeting for
the purpose of executing their commission; they shall within
ten days after such valuation and assessment report the same,
in writing, under their hands and seals, with the certificate of
their qualification as hereinbefore provided, to the commis-
sioners of the town, which said valuation and assessment
shall be ratified or rejected by them as in their judgment may
seem proper; and if any person shall feel aggrieved by the
determination of the commissioners in ratifying or rejecting,
or the amount of compensation awarded, less benefits ana
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Appeal may
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advantages accruing or in any matter relating to the same, he
may appeal within thirty days after said ratification or rejec-
tion to the Circuit Court for Charles County; either party
may be entitled to a trial by jury, and the judgment of said
Court shall be final among the parties; providing, that the
person taking the appeal shall, within ten days thereafter,
cause to be delivered to the clerk of the Circuit Court the
award tiled by said commissioners, together with a copy of the
order of said commissioners ratifying or rejecting the same,
and all other papers relating thereto. And the said commis-
sioners may enact all ordinances necessary from time to time
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