844 CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8

value the damages which the owner will sustain by the use or
occupation of his property, for the uses and purposes herein-
before mentioned.

1870, ch. 100

205. The jury, in estimating the damages sustained by the
owner as aforesaid, shall take into consideration the benefit re-
sulting to said owner by opening or laying said streets, lanes or
alleys, through, along or near the property of said owner, but
only in extinguishment of the claim for damages; and the said
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 circtiit court for said county, and shall be confirmed
by said court at its next session, if no sufficient cause to the con-
trary be shown, and when confirmed shall be recorded by said
clerk at the expense of said president and commissioners.

Ibid.

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

Ibid.

207. 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 valued and condemned by said inqui-
sition; and such valuation, when paid or tendered the owner of
said property, or his legal representatives, shall entitle, the said
president and commissioners to the estate, use and interest in the
same, so valued and condemned for the purpose aforesaid, as
fully as if the same had been conveyed by the owner; and the
valuation, if not received from the said president and commis-
sioners when tendered, may at any time thereafter be received,
without costs, by the said owner or his legal representatives.

Ibid.

208. The commissioners shall have power to determine upon
and regulate all matters relating to the building of wharves in
said village; to regulate the moving of rafts, arks and boats, and
to prevent all nuisances and obstructions from being placed in
the waters of the North-East river, in front of said village.