344 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

first publication of such notice, for the purpose of reviewing
any of the matters contained in such statement to which any
person claiming to be interested shall make objection ; and the
Commissioners shall meet at the time and place so appointed,
and shall hear and consider all such representations or testi-
mony on oath or affirmation, verbal or in writing, in relation to
any matter in said statement which shall be offered to them on
behalf of any person claiming to be interested therein ; and
the said Commissioners shall make all such corrections and
alterations in the valuations, assessments and estimates, and all
other matters contained in the said statements and explanatory
map or maps aforesaid, as in their judgment shall appear to
them, or a majority of them, to be just and proper ; and they
may adjourn, from day to day, if necessary, to give all parties
claiming a review an opportunity to be heard, not exceeding in
the whole ten days ; and after closing such review the Commis-
sioners shall make all such corrections in their statement and
explanatory map or maps as they shall deem proper, and
cause such statement as corrected to be recorded in their book
of proceedings, and certified under the hands and seals of the
said Commissioners and their Clerk, an'd shall deposit the same,
together with the explanatory map or maps, as finally corrected
by them, and similarly certified to in the office of the City
Register ; and it shall be the duty of the City Register within
five days after said proceedings shall have been deposited in his
office, to notify all persons interested by an advertisement, to
be inserted once a week for four successive weeks, in two of the
daily newspapers of the City, that the said assessment and maps
have been so placed in his office, and that the parties affected
thereby are entitled to appeal therefrom by petition in writing
to the Baltimore City Court.

178. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Commissioners
for Opening Streets to serve written or printed notice upon
each and every party or parties assessed for damages, caused by
the condemnation and opening of any public highway ; pro-
vided, however that the service of such notice shall not be so
construed as to be one of the prerequisites to the condemnation
and opening of any street under any ordinance heretofore
passed, or hereafter to be passed.