454 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

or benefited by said street, alley, square, drain or waterway;
they shall give at least ten days' notice in three public places
in the corporate limits of their purpose to lay out, open, extend,
close up, widen, straighten, grade or improve the street or alley,
square, drain or waterway, so desired to be laid out, opened, ex-
tended, closed up, widened, straightened, graded or improved,
and of the day, hour and place of meeting for said purpose, and
they shall meet at the time and place mentioned in the notices
given by them, and proceed to exercise the powers and perform
the duty assigned to and required of them, and to ascertain
whether any and what amount, in value of damages, will be
caused thereby, for which the owner or occupant of any right
or interest, claimed in any ground or improvement, ought to
be compensated, over and above the amount in value of benefit
which will thereby accrue to such owner or occupant thereof,
and ascertain what amount in value or benefit will thereby ac-
crue to any lot or parcel of ground, by or through which the
same may pass or improvements made, or any other property,
or to the owner or occupant thereof, and which the said lot or
parcel of ground, or the owner or occupant thereof, ought to
pay. They shall locate boundaries and prepare an explanatory
map giving descriptions of the street or alley opened, closed, ex-
tended, widened, straightened or improved, with each separate
or parcel of ground deemed to have sustained damages or re-
ceived benefits, and they shall, within ten days, return to the
Board of Commissioners, such maps, together with the amoum
of damages awarded to such owner or occupants, and the amount
of benefits assessed to any lot or parcel of ground or the owner
thereof, together with a certificate of their qualification, which
may be ratified or rejected, or altered or amended, in whole, or
in part, by said Board of Commissioners; provided, that the
Board of Commissioners shall give ten days' notice, at least, by
publication in one of the County papers, published in Wicomico
County, or by ten days' notice, at least, in writing, to each
property owner so interested, of the time set for the final action
or return of said examiners, and said Board of Commisioners
shall act on said return within twenty days after the expira-
tion of said notice, and may issue a new commission, as in their
judgment may seem proper; and before actually proceeding to
open, widen, extend, straighten or close up any such street or
alley, the Board of Commissioners shall pay, or tender to the
person, his agent, guardian or representative, the amount of
damages so awarded; and if any one should feel aggrieved by
the decision of the Board of Commissioners, in any matter