SCHOOLS.

ments, if any, shall be final and conclusive, unless an appeal
shall be prosecuted as herein after provided, and the amount of
damage for the land and improvements, if any, so valued and
assessed as aforesaid, being paid or offered to be paid to the
person or persons entitled to receive the same, of which pay-
ment or offer to pay, a certificate signed by a majority of the
said trustees, and recorded among the land records of the pro-
per county, or a copy of such record duly certified and sealed,
shall be sufficient evidence, the said trustees in their corporate
character shall be thenceforward considered the lawful owners
of the said land and improvements, if any, and all right, title,
estate and interest therein, at law or in equity shall be vested

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in them for the purpose aforesaid ; Provided however, that if
the owner or owners of the said land and improvements, if any,
his, her or their guardian or guardians, trustee or trustees, shall
conceive him, her or themselves aggrieved by such valuation
and assessment, and shall, within thirty days after the payment
of the valuation so offered as aforesaid, notify to the said trus-
tees the same in writing, it shall and may be lawful, and it
shall be the duty of the said trustees, or a majority of them, to
issue their warrant to the sheriff of the county, commanding
him to summon a jury of six freeholders of the neighbourhood,
not interested in the matter, to appear on a day by them to be
appointed, on the premises, and any one of the said trustees, or
any justice of the peace for the said county, is authorized to
administer an oath or affirmation, as the case may be, to each
and every person so summoned as aforesaid, that he will,
without favour, affection, partiality or prejudice, assess the
damages sustained by the person or persons at whose request
the said inquisition shall be taken, by reason of his, her or
their land and improvements, if any, about to be made as afore-
said, and the person so summoned and qualified as aforesaid,
shall thereupon proceed to value and assess the damages ac-
cordingly ; Provided, that if such appeal from the valuation
and assessment of the said trustees be confirmed by the jury
herein directed to be summoned and qualified as aforesaid, or
should the same be reduced to a lower rate of valuation and
assessment by the said jury, the party appealing in that case
shall pay the whole expense incurred thereby, otherwise the
trustees, in their corporate character as such, shall pay the
expense incurred by reason of such appeal.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, or the
said jury, as the case may be, immediately after they shall
have completed their valuation and assessment, or inquisition
as aforesaid, and done all things required of them or cither of
them, as the case may be, under the provisions of this act,
shall make out a fair statement of their proceedings, setting

Copy of pro-
ceedings;
recorded.