1576 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Crr. 630

given by them and proceed to exercise the powers 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, claimed 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 ascertain what
amount in value or benefit will thereby accrue to any lot
or parcel of ground, by or through which the same may
pass or improvements made, or any other property, or to
the owner or occupant thereof, and which the said lot or
parcel of ground, or the owner or occupant thereof, ought
to pay. They shall locate boundaries and prepare an
explanatory map giving descriptions of the street or alley
opened, closed, extended, widened, straightened or im-
proved, with each separate or parcel of ground deemed
to have sustained damages or receive benefits, and they
shall, within ten days, return to the Board of Commis-
sioners, such maps, 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 the
owner thereof, together with a certificate of their quali-
fication, which may be ratified or rejected, or altered or
amended, in whole, or in part, by said Board of Commis-
sioners; provided, that the Board of Commissioners shall
give ten days' notice, at least, by publication in one of the
County papers, published in Wicomico County, or by ten
days' notice, at least, in writing, to each property owner
so interested, of the time set for the final action or return
of said examiners, and said Board of Commissioners shall
act on said return within twenty days after the expiration
or said notice, and may issue a new commission, as in
their judgment may seem proper; and before actually pro-
ceeding to open, widen, extend, straighten or close up any
such street or alley, the Board of Commissioners shall pay,
or tender to the person, his agent, guardian or represen-
tative, the amount of damages so awarded; and if any one
should feel aggrieved by the decision of the Board of Com-
missioners, in any matter affected by their decision, he
may appeal to the Circuit Court for Wicomico County,
by giving written notice within twenty days from said
decision, filed with the Clerk of the Board of Commis-
sioners, of his desire to appeal; and on the filing of said
notice, it shall be the duty of the Clerk to deliver the
papers connected therewith to the Clerk of said Court,
and the same proceedings shall be had on the appeal as