JOSEPH KENT, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1827

eluding in said valuation, a reasonable allowance for the use
and privilege of a road from the land aforesaid, through the
lands of any proprietor or proprietors, if such road shall be
deemed necessary; and the decision of the commissioners a-
foresaid, or a majority of them, shall be considered final and
conclusive, between the parties, unless an appeal shall thereaf-
ter be prosecuted as is hereafter provided; and the amount or
value of the land, and the right of way, as aforesaid, thereto
so assessed being paid, or offered to be paid, to the proprietor
or proprietors thereof, the United States shall henceforward,
be considered the true and lawful owners of the said land, or
of the said right, and privileges of a way, for the purposes

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aforesaid: Provided always, That if the owner or owners, of
the said land, and of the said road, as aforesaid valued, his,
her or their guardian or guardians, trustee or trustees, shall
conceive him, her, or themselves, aggrieved by such valua-
tion by the said commissioners, or any of them, and shall no-
tify to the said commissioners the same in writing, it shall
and may be lawful for said commissioners, or any three of
them, to issue their warrant to the sheriff of the county, com-
manding him to summon as jurors, six freeholders of the
county aforesaid, and not interested in the premises, and qua-
lified to serve as jurors in the county court, to appear on a day
to be by them appointed, on the premises, and the said com-
missioners, or any one of them, are hereby authorised to ad-
minister an oath or affirmation, as the case may be, to every
person so summoned, that he will without favor, affection,
partiality or prejudice, assess the damages sustained by the
person or persons, at whose request such inquisition shall be
taken by transfer of his, her, or their lands, about to be made
as aforesaid, and by reason of the disadvantages attendant up-
on the erection as aforesaid, and the privileges of the road a-
foresaid, upon the land aforesaid; and the person-so summon-
ed, and so qualified, shall thereupon proceed to assess and
value the damages accordingly, of which the said commission-
ers or any one of them, shall have given notice in, the public
papers as aforesaid, and such inquisition shall be final and
conclusive: Provided, That in such appeal from the valuation
and assessment of damages made by the commissioners,
should the valuation and assessment of the said commission-
ers be confirmed or reduced, by the jury by this section di-
rected to be summoned, the party appealing shall pay the

Proviso.

whole expense incurred thereby.
Sec. 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
United States aforesaid, tor the purposes aforesaid.

Appeal provided
for

Sec. 4 And be it enacted, That the commissioners and ju-
rors aforesaid, shall be allowed For each and every day they
shall be employed, under the provisions of this act, two dol-
lars, and costs necessarily incurred, one half of which allow-
ance to be paid by the United States, the other moiety by the
proprietor or proprietors, of the lands assessed.

Jurisdiction ceded