EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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ages to be ascertained by them as directed by this Act, upon

any one and each of the streets, lanes or alleys, squares, or

market spaces, or on any of said additions or extensions of

Statements of

the basin or harbor, wharves or docks, it shall cause a state-

contemplated

ment thereof to be made out for the inspection of all persons

improvements.

desiring information of its contents, and such statement, to-

gether with an explanatory map or maps, shall contain a de-

scription of each separate lot or parcel of ground deemed to

have sustained damages, its dimensions, the name of the street,

lane or alley, square, market space, wharf or dock on which

it bounds, the names of all supposed to have an estate or inter-

est in it, and the amount of damages as valued by the Com-

mission ; and if there be any building or other improvements

or material or debris on it necessary to be removed, in whole

or in part, such description thereof as the Commission shall

deem necessary ; and in like manner a description of each par-

cel of ground deemed by said Commission to be benefited,

the name or names of such person or persons as may be sup-

posed to have any estate or interest therein and the amount

assessed thereon for benefits : and the said Commission shall

cause a notice to be published for four successive days in two

daily newspapers of the city stating the extent of the ground

covered by the assessments, and that such statement and maps

are ready for the inspection of all persons interested therein,

and that the Commission will meet at its office on a day, to be

named in said notice, which shall be within ten days after the

first publication of such notice, for the purpose of reviewing

Commission to

any of the matters contained in such statement, to which

meet for re-

any person claiming to be interested shall make objection; and

viewing mat-
ters in state-

the Commission shall meet at the time and place so appointed

ment.

and shall hear and consider all such representations or testi-

mony on oath or affirmation, verbal or in writing, in relation

to any matter in said statement, which shall be offered to it

on behalf of any person claiming to be interested therein; and

the said Commission shall make all corrections and alterations

in the valuation, assessments and estimates and all other mat-

ters contained in said statement and explanatory map or maps

aforesaid, as in its judgment, or a majority of the members

n f said Commission, shall appear to be just and proper; and

said Commission may adjourn from day to day, if necessary,

to give all parties claiming a review an opportunitv to be

heard, not exceeding in the whole ten days, and after closing

Closing re-

such review the Commission shall make all such corrections

view.

in its statement and explanatory map or maps as it shall deem

proper, and cause such statement, as corrected, to be recorded