1826.

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAP. 201

without further, affection, partiality or prejudice, assess the da-
mages sustained by the person or persons at whose request
such requisition shall be taken, by transfer of his, her, or their
lands, about to be made as aforesaid, and by reason of the dis-
advantages attendant upon the erection as aforesaid upon the
land aforesaid, and the persons so summoned and qualified shall
thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages accordingly,
of which the said commissioners, or any one of them, shall
have given notice in the public papers as aforesaid, and such
inquisition shall be conclusive and final; Provided, that in such
appeal from the valuation and assessment of damages made .by
the commissioners, should the valuation and assessment of the
said commissioners be confirmed by the jury, by this act di-
rected to be summoned, the party appealing shall pay the whole
expense incurred thereby; Provided, that the three lots on Con-
cord Point, now owned and used as a fishery by Joshua Green
and Alexander Myers, shall hot be subject to condemnation for

Right of state re-
linquished

a garden.
3, And be it enacted, That the right of jurisdiction of the
state of Maryland in and over the land aforesaid, be and the
same is hereby relinquished, ceded, and made over to the Unit-
ed States aforesaid, for the purposes aforesaid, provided that the
quantity does not exceed one acre as aforesaid.

Compensation al-
lowed commission-

ers.

4. And be it enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid
shall be allowed for each and every day they shall be employed
under the provisions of this act the sum of two dollars, and
costs necessarily incurred, one half of which allowance shall
be paid by the United States, and the other half by the com-
missioners of the town of Havre-de-Grace, or the proprietor or
proprietors of the lands assessed, as the case may be.

Copy of their pro-

ceding to be re-
turnred and re-
corded

5. And be it enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid,.
when they shall have completed their valuation as aforesaid,
and dope all other things required of them by this law, shall
make out a copy of their proceedings, setting forth in the same
a full description of the land by them valued for the establish-
ment of the light-house as aforesaid, together with the road to
the same, and ail other matters and things connected with the
said valuation, and the performance of the duties assigned to
them by this act, and, to the said copy, fairly written out, they
shall subscribe their names, and thereto set their seals, and they
shall deposit the same in the office of the clerk of Harford
county court and the clerk of said court shall preserve and re-
cord the said proceeding for the recording of which he shall
be entitled to the same lee which he receives for other records,
to be paid by the parties.

Right of state over

ground be heretofore

contracted for, re-
lingquished.

6, And de it further enacted. That the right of jurisdiction
of the state of Maryland in aad over the ground heretofore
contracted for, purchased, or to be purchased, by the United
States, as sites for the erection of a light-house and dwelling
house and so forth, on Core Point, in Calvert county, be and
the same is hereby relinquished, ceded, and made over to the
United States, for the purposes aforesaid, provided the ground
so contracted for, purchased or to be purchased, shall not ex-
ceed five acres