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of the commissioners aforesaid, or of a majority of them, shall
be considered final (and conclusive between the parties, unless
an ^appeal shall hereafter be prosecuted as is herein after pro-
vided ; and the amount or value of the land, and the right of
way as aforesaid thereto, so assessed, being paid, or offered to
be paid to the proprietor or proprietors thereof, the United States
shall henceforward be considered the true and lawful owners of
the said land, of the said right and privilege of a way for the
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Provisos.
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purposes aforesaid ; Provided always, that if the owner or
owners of the said land, and of the said road so as aforesaid
valued, his, her, or their guardian or guardians, trustee or trus-
tees, shall conceive him, heir or themselves, aggrieved by such
valuation by the said commissioners, and shall notify to the
said commissioners the same in writing, it shall and may be law-
ful for said commissioners, or any three of them, to issue their
warrant to the sheriff of Baltimore county, commanding him to
summon twelve freeholders in the county aforesaid, and not
iaterested in the premises, and qualified to serve as jurors in the
county court, to appear on a day to be by them appointed on the
premises ; and the said commissioners, or any one of them, are
hereby authorized to administer an oatli or affirmation, as the
case may be, to every person so summoned, that he will, with-
out favour, affection, partiality or prejudice, assess the damages
sustained by the person or persons at whose request such in-
quisition shall be taken, by the transfer of his, her or their land,
about to be made as aforesaid, and by reason of the disadvan-
tages attendant upon the erection aforesaid, and the privilege of
the road aforesaid upon the land aforesaid ; and the persons so
summoned, and so qualified, shall thereupon proceed to assess
and value the damages accordingly, of which the said commis-
sioners, or any one of them, shall have given at least five days
notice in two or more of the public papers of the city of Balti-
more, and such inquisition shall be final and conclusive ; Pro-
vided, that in such appeal from the valuation and assessment of
damages made by the commissioners, should the valuation and
assessment of the said commissioners be confirmed by the jury,
by this section directed to be summoned, the party appealing
shall pay the whole expense incurred thereby.
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Right of
state ceded
to U. States
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SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the right of jurisdiction of
the state of Maryland in and over the land aforesaid, as well as in
and over so much of Bodkin Island as has been heretofore pur-
chased by the United States, as by reference to deed therefor,
bearing date the twenty-first day of August last past, recorded in
the land record books of Anne-Arundel county the eleventh day
of October following, will more fully appear, be and the same is
hereby relinquished, ceded, and made over to the United States
aforesaid, for the purposes aforesaid.
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