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faithfully and fairly and without partiality or prejudice, value and assess
the loss and damages to be suffered and incurred by any person or persons
interested in said property over, through and by which the street or alley,
square, drain or watercourse is to be opened, closed, extended, widened,
graded or improved, and also to estimate the benefits that may accrue
therefrom to any such property, over, through and by which the said
street or alley, drain or watercourse is to be opened, closed, extended,
widened, graded or improved, or any property adjacent thereto, or any
other property injured or benefited by said street, or alley, drain or water-
course; 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, straighen, 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 compensated 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 re-
ceived benefits, and they shall within twenty days return to the Commis-
sioners 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; pro-
vided 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 inter-
ested, of the time set for final action on return of said commission, and
said Commissioners of Sharptown 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 proceeding to
open, widen, extend, straighten or close any such street or alley the Com-
missioners 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 the action of the Commissioners of
Sharptown in any matter affected by their decision, he may appeal to the

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