JOSEPH KENT; ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1827

certified and sealed, shall be sufficient evidence, the said
trustees in their corporate character shall be thenceforward
considered the lawful owners of the said land and improve-
ments, if any, and all right, titltt, estate and interest therein
at law or in equity shall be vested in them (or the purpose

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aforesaid; Provided however ', that if the owner or owners of
the said land and improvements, if any, his, her or their guar-
dian or guardians, trustee or trustees shall conceive him, her
or themselves aggrieved by such valuation and assessment,
and shall, within thirty days after the payment of the valuation
so offered as aforesaid, notify to the said trustees the same ia
writing, it shall and may be lawful, and it shall be the duty of the
said trustees, or a majority of them, to issue their warrant to the
sheriff of the county, commanding him to summon a jury of
six freeholders of the neighborhood, not interested in the
matter, to appear on a day by them to be appointed, on the
premises, and any one of the said trustees, or any justice of
the peace for the said county, is authorised to administer an
oath or affirmation, as the case maybe, to each and every
person so summoned as aforesaid, that he will, without favor
affection, partiality or prejudice, assess the damages sustain-
ed by the person or persons at whose request the said inqui-
sition shall be taken, by reason of his, her or their land and
improvements, if any, about to be made as aforesaid, and the
person so summoned and qualified as aforesaid, shall there-
upon proceed to value and assess the damages accordingly
Provided, That if such appeal from the valuation and assess-
ment of the said trustees be confirmed by the jury herein di-
rected to be summoned and qualified as aforsaid, or should
the same be reduced to a lower rate of valuation and assess-
ment by the said jury, the party appealing in that case shall
pay the whole expense incurred thereby, otherwise the trus-
tees, in their corporate character as such, shall pay the ex-
pense incurred by reason of such appeal.

Proviso

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the said trustees, or the
said jury, as the case may be, immediately after they shall
have completed their valuation and assessment, or inquisition
as aforesaid, and done all things required of them or cither of
them, as the case may be, under the provisions of this act,
shall make out a fair statement of their proceedings, setting
forth in the same a full and distinct description of the land or
real estate and improvements, if any thereon, as valued by them,
or either of them, as the case may be, and all other matters
and things connected with the said valuation and assessment,
and the performance of the duties required of them by this
act, and to the said copy, fairly to be written out as aforesaid,
they shall subscribe their names and thereunto 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; and a
copy of such record certified by the said clerk, under the seal
of the said court, shall be evidence of all matters therein seal

Copy of proceed-
ings—recorded