1826

LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAP. 250

and shall, within thirty days after payment of the valuation be
ing offered as aforesaid, notify to the said commissioners the
same in writing, it shall and may be lawful for the said com-
missioners, or a majority of them, to issue their warrant to the
sheriff of Baltimore county, commanding him to summon
twelve freeholders in the county aforesaid, not interested in the
matter, to appear on a day to be by them appointed, on the pre-
mises; and any one of the said commissioners is authorised to
administer an oath, or affirmation, as the case may be, to every
person so summoned as aforesaid, that he will, without favour,
auction, partiality of prejudice, assess the damages sustained by
the person or persons at whose request said inquisition shall be
taken, by reason of the transfer of his, her or their lands, or
real estate and improvements, about to be made as aforesaid;
and the persons, so summoned and qualified as aforesaid, shall
thereupon proceed to assess and value the damages accordingly, of
which the said commissioners, or anyone of them, shall have given
notice in the public papers as aforesaid, and such inquisition shall
the final and conclusive; Provided, that in such appeal from the
valuation and assessment of the said commissioners, should the
valuation and assessment of the Said commissioners Be confirm-
ed by the jury by this section directed to be summoned, or
should the same be reduced to a lower rate of valuation and as-
sessment by the said jury, the party appealing, in that case,
shall pay the whole expense incurred thereby, otherwise the
state shall pay the expense incurred by reason of the said ap-
peal.

Their allowance

2. And be it enacted. That the commissioners aforesaid shall
Be allowed, for each and every day they shall be necessarily
employed under the provisions of this act, two dollars, to be
paid by the state.

Alter completing
valuations, &c to
be depositied in

clerk's office

3. And be it enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid, or
the said jury, as the case may be, when they shall have com-
pleted their valuation and assessment, or inquisition, as afore-
said, and done all things required of them, or either of them,
as the case may be, tinder the provisions of this act, shall make
out a fair copy of their proceedings, setting forth in the same a
full and distinct description of the land or real estate, and im-
provements thereon, with wharves and appertenances as afore-
said, valued by them, or either of them, as the ease may be,
and all other matters and things connected with the said valua-
tion and assessment, and the performance of the duties requir-
ed of them by this act, and to the said copy, fairly to be writ-
ten out as aforesaid, they shall subscribe their names, and there-
unto affix their seals, and they shall deposit the same in the
office of the clerk of the county court of the said county, and it
shall be the duty of the said clerk to preserve a record of the
said proceedings, for the recording of which he shall be en-
titled to the same fees which may be received for other records
of the like character, to be paid by the state; and a copy of such
record, certified by the said clerk under the seal of his court,
shall be evidence of all matters therein stated, ia the issue
manner as certified copies of other records are evidence.