448 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

county, and shall be confirmed by said court at its next session,
if no sufficient cause to the contrary be shown, and when con-
firmed, shall be recorded by said clerk, at the expense of said
president and commissioners.

80. If said inquisition be.set aside, the said court may direct
another to be taken in the same manner as the first.

81. Every inquisition shall describe the property taken, or the
bounds of the land condemned, and the quantity or duration of
the interest in the same therein valued, and such valuation, when
paid or tendered to the owner of the property or his legal repre-
sentatives, shall entitle the said president and commissioners to
the estate, use and interest in the same so valued for the pur-
poses aforesaid, as fully as if the same had been conveyed by the
owner, and the valuation, if not received from the said president
and commissioners when tendered, may at any time thereafter
be received, without costs, by the owner or his legal representa-
tives.

82. The said president and commissioners shall have power to
levy and collect taxes in said 'town not exceeding in any one year
forty cents in the hundred dollars on the assessable property of
said town; and they shall once in every five years, or oftener if
they think proper, appoint an assessor, who shall, under oath,
assess and value the property in said town, in the same manner
and with like authority as county assessors; Provided, that in
assessing any of the lands within the town which may be occu-
pied and used as farms, or may be a part or parts of farms, such
lands shall be valued and assessed as lots of four acres of ground,
with the buildings and improvements thereon, and shall not be
valued and assessed by the number of acres therein.

83. If any owner of property assessed within said town shall
feel aggrieved by the assessment so made, he may appeal to the
president and commissioners, who may make such deduction
from the valuation of his property as they may deem reasonable.
and just.

84. The said president and commissioners may from time to
time, under such conditions as they may by their ordinances
direct, appoint such officers as they may deem necessary to carry
into effect their ordinances, among whom shall be a town bailiff,