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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Commission'rs
shall appoint
assessors.
Duties of.

ing or improving of said streets, lanes or alleys, shall be
determined and assessed by three disinterested persons, resi-
dents of said village, to be appointed by said Commissioners,
who shall within twenty days after notification of their ap-
pointment, take an oath before a justice of the peace for
Caroline County that they will faithfully, fairly and with-
out partiality or prejudice value and assess the loss and
damage to be suffered and incurred by any person inter-
ested in any land or interest therein condemned or in the
property over and through which any street or alley is to
be opened, closed, extended, widened or improved; and they
shall within ten days after such valuation or assessment return
the same in writing under their hands and seals with a certifi-
cate of their qualification before a justice of the peace, as here-
inbefore provided, to the Commissioners of said village, which
said valuation and assessment shall be ratified or rejected by
the said Commissioners, as in their judgment may seem proper;
and if any person shall feel aggrieved by the determination
of the said Commissioners in ratifying or rejection said award

May appeal
from assess-
ment with-
in certain
time.

or return, or in the amount of compensation awarded, or in
any manner relating to the same, he may appeal within sixty
days after said ratification or rejection to the Circuit Court for
Caroline County, and either party may be entitled to trial by
jury, and the judgment of said court shall be final among the
parties; provided, that the person taking such appeal shall
within twenty days cause to be delivered to the Clerk of the
said Circuit Court the award filed with said Commissioners,
together with a copy of the order of said Commissioners rati-
fying or rejecting the same, and all other papers relating
thereto.

Shall publish
annual state-
ments, etc.

168. The said Commissioners shall at least once a year
publish in some newspaper printed in said village, or post in
at least four public places in said village, a full account of
moneys received by them for the year preceding the date of
such account, and an itemized statement of all disbursements
during the same time, and said account or statement must be
sworn to by at least one Commissioner,

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 10, 1900.

CHAPTER 739.
AN ACT to prevent the Commission of Larceny by Children
and Minors in the City of Baltimore.