THOMAS W. VEAZEY, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

4835.

ensuing the day on which the said proprietors by

themselves or attorney or by guardian or next friend,

CHAP. 327

when they are infants, shall have severally filed their

respective claims with the clerk whom the commis-

sioner may appoint to record their proceedings; provi-

Proviso

ded however, that the said commissioners shall not

consider any claim which shall not he stated in writing

and filed as aforesaid, within five years from the peri-

od of the completion of the said rail road, or after such

bridge shall have been built, and if any vacancy shall

Vacancy

happen by reason of either of the said commissioners

declining to act or by resignation, death or otherwise,

the Judges of the sixth judicial district or any two of

them, shall appoint a person or persons to fill such va-

cancy, and that they and their clerk shall be severally

Compensation

entitled to receive from the said company three dollars

per day for each and every day which they shall be

necessarily engaged in attending to their respective

duties under this act, and that before they proceed to

the discharge of their duties, the said commissioners

Oath

shall severally take and subscribe the following oath or

affirmation: I, , do swear or affirm that I will

to the best of my skill and judgment, impartially con-

sider, decide and declare what damages may have been

sustained, or will in my opinion be sustained by the

proprietors of any land, lying on the Gunpowder Riv-

er or Bush River, by reason of the construction of any

bridge which the said company may cause to he built

across either of the said rivers, and who shall file his

claim for damages within the time limited therefor by

the act under which I am commissioner; and the said

Appoint clerk

commissioners shall appoint a clerk at the expense of

said corporation, and they shall make a full and accurate

Make a return

return of all their proceedings to the clerk of the county

court of the county in which such land shall be situate,

to be preserved by him, and copies of any part thereof,

Copy to be evi-

certified under the seal of said court, shall be evidence in

dence

the trial of any cause arising out of any claim therein

mentioned, and either party interested may within thir-

ty days after return of the proceedings of the commiss-

sioners to the clerk aforesaid, file a petition to the said

Appeal

court, appealing from and praying a review of the deci-