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newspapers of the city stating the extent of the ground covered
by the assessment, and that such statement and maps are ready
for the inspection of all persons interested therein and that
the commissioners will meet at their office on a day to be
named in said notice, which shall be not less than five nor more
than ten days after the first publication of such notice, for the
purpose of reviewing any of the matters contained in such
statement to which any person claiming to be interested shall
make objection; and the commissioners shall meet at the time
and place so appointed, and shall hear and consider all such
representations or testimony on oath or affirmation, verbal or
in writing, in relation to any matter in said statement which
shall be offered to them on behalf of any person claiming to
be interested therein, and the said commissioners shall make
all such corrections and alterations in the valuations, assess-
ments and estimates, and all other matters contained in the
said statements and explanatory map or maps aforesaid, as
in their judgment shall appear to them, or a majority of them,
to be just and proper; and they may adjourn, from day to day,
if necessary, to give all parties claiming a review an oppor-
tunity to be heard, not exceeding in the whole ten days; and
after closing such review the commissioners shall make all such
corrections in their statement and explanatory map or maps
as they shall deem proper, and cause such statement as cor-
rected to be recorded in their book of proceedings, and certi-
fied under the hands and seals of said commissioners and their
clerk, and notify all persons interested by an advertisement,
to be inserted once a week for four successive weeks, in two
of the daily newspapers of the city that the said assessments
have been completed, and that the parties affected thereby are
entitled to appeal therefrom by petition in writing to the Balti-
more City Court within thirty days after the first publication
of said notice.

178. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Commissioners
for Opening Streets to serve written or printed notice upon
each and every party or parties assessed for damages, caused
by the condemnation and opening of any public highway; pro-
vided, however, that the service of such notice shall not be so
construed as to be one of the prerequisites to the condemnation
and opening of any street under any ordinance heretofore
passed, or hereafter to be passed.

179. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore or any
person or persons, or corporations, who may be dissatisfied
with the assessment of damages or benefits, as hereinbefore pro-
vided, may, within thirty days after the first publication of the