ART. 8.] ELKTON. 827

1880, ch. 435.

143. The jury in estimating the damages shall take into con-
sideration the benefit resulting to the owner from opening and
laying out, straightening, widening and draining said streets,
lanes or alleys, through, along or near to the property of said
owner, but only in the extinguishment of his claims for damages;
and the jury shall reduce their inquisition to writing, and shall
sign and seal the same, and it shall then be returned by the
sheriff to the clerk of the circuit court for the county, and shall
be confirmed by said court at its next session, if no sufficient
cause to the contrary be shown, whether on account of insuffi-
ciency of damages or otherwise, and when confirmed it shall be
recorded by said clerk at the expense of said president and com-
missioners.

Ibid.

144. If said inquisition be set aside, the said court may direct
another to be taken in the same manner as the first.

Ibid.

145. Every inquisition shall describe the property taken or
the bounds of the land condemned, and the quantity or duration
of the interest in the same therein valued ; and such valuation,
when paid or tendered to the owner of the property, or his legal
representatives, or in case no damages shall be assessed, the con-
firmation of said inquisition shall entitle the president and com-
missioners to the estate, use and interest in the same so valued,
for the purposes aforesaid, as fully as if the same had been con-
veyed by the owner; and the valuation, if not received from the
president and commissioners when tendered, may at any time
thereafter be received without costs by the owner or his legal
representatives.

Ibid.

146. The president and commissioners shall have power to
levy and collect taxes in the town not exceeding in any one year
thirty cents on the hundred dollars on the assessable property of
the town; and once in every ten years, or oftener if they think
proper, they shall appoint an assessor, who shall, under oath, assess
and value the property in the town in the same manner and with
like authority as county assessors; provided, that the assessable