PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 917"

graded or improved, or any property adjacent thereto, or any
other property injured or benefited by said street, or alley,
drain or watercourse; they shall give at least ten days' notice
by posting notices in at least four public places in said town
of their purpose to lay out, open, extend, close up, widen,
straighten, grade or improve the street or alley, square, drain
, or watercourse so directed to be laid out, opened, extended,
closed up, widened, straightened, graded or improved, and of
the day, hour and place of meeting for the said purpose; and
they shall meet at the time and place mentioned in said notice
given by them, and proceed to exercise the power and perform
the duties assigned to and required of them, and to ascertain
whether any and what amount in value of damages will be
caused thereby, for which the owner or occupant of any right
or interest in any ground or improvement ought to be com-
pensated over and above the amount in value of benefit which
will thereby accrue to such owner or occupant thereof, and to
ascertain what amount in value of benefit will thereby accrue
to any lot or parcel of land by or through which the same may
pass or improvements be made or any other property, or to the
owner or occupant thereof, which the said lot or parcel of land,
or the owner or occupant thereof ought to pay. They shall
locate boundaries and prepare an explanatory map giving
description of the street or alley opened, closed, extended,
widened, straightened or improved, with each separate lot or
" parcel of land deemed to have sustained damages or received
benefits, and they shall within twenty days return to the Com-
missioners of Sharptown such map, together with the amount
of damages awarded to such owner or occupants and the amount
of benefits assessed to any lot or parcel of ground, or owner
thereof, together with a certificate of their qualifications, which
may be ratified, or rejected, or altered and amended in whole
or in part by said Commissioners of Sharptown; provided
that the said Commissioners of Sharptown shall give ten
days' notice, at least, by posters stuck up in four public places
in said town, or by ten days' notice, at least, in writing to each
property owner so interested, of the time set for final action on
return of said commission, and said Commissioners of Sharp-
town shall act on said return within twenty days after the
expiration of said notice, and may issue a new commission as in
their judgment may seem proper, and before actually proceed-
ing to open, widen, extend, straighten or close any such street
or alley the Commissioners of Sharptown shall pay or tender
to the person, his agent, guardian or representative the amount
of damages so awarded; and if any one should feel aggrieved by