ROBERT M. McLANE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

will thereby accrue to such owner or occupant, and
ascertain what amount of benefit will thereby accrue
to any lot or parcel of ground within or adjacent to
said town, or to the owner or occupant thereof, and
which said lot or parcel of ground, or the owner or
occupant, ought to pay.
SEC. 141. Whenever the board of street commis-
sioners shall have proceeded to execute the powers

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conferred in the preceding section, they shall have
prepared an explanatory map, which shall contain a
correct description of the street, highway, lane, alley,
square, drain or water course so laid out, opened, ex-
tended, widened, straightened or closed up by them,
with each separate lot or parcel of ground deemed to
have sustained damages or received benefits, and shall
give at least ten days' notice in one or more news-
papers of the town, that they will meet at a time and
place mentioned in said notice, to determine the
amount of damages to be awarded to the owner or
occupant of any lot or parcel of ground which will
sustain damages, and any lot or parcel of ground
which will be benefitted. They shall meet at the time

Prepare ex-
planatory map.

and place mentioned in said notice, and within three
days inclusive of the day of meeting, determine the
amount of damages to be awarded to all owners and
occupants, and the amount of benefit assessed to any
lot or parcel of ground, and transmit their decision,
with the explanatory map, to the clerk of the mayor
and council, who shall file the same and record such
decision in a book to be kept for that purpose.
SEC. 142. After the filing of the explanatory map
and decision of the board of street commissioners,

Detyrminr

amount of dam-
ages.

the mayor and council may order and direct the said
street, lane, alley, square, highway, water course or
drain so laid out, opened, extended, widened, straight-
ened or closed up, to be established or closed up, as
the case may be.
SEC. 143. If any person or corporation, to whom
any damages have been awarded, or against whom
any benefits have been assessed, shall feel aggrieved
by the decision of the board of street commissioners,

Explanatory
map filed

he, they or it shall have the right of appeal to the cir-
cuit court for Washington county, provided written
notice of an intention to appeal be served upon the
mayor or one of the councilman within ten days after
the said decision shall have been filed, and the same

Right of appealil