JAMES THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1834.

low ground which in their opinion will or may be benefit-
ed by the cutting and opening of any such ditch or ditches,
and shall determine the value of such marshes and low
ground per acre, as near as may be, according to the situa-
tion thereof, and upon such principles as will do equal jus-
tice to all the owners thereof, but in determining the quanti-
ty or number of acres of such marsh or low grounds held
by any owner or owners as aforesaid, it shall not he neces-

CHAP. 264.

sioners may estimate the same according to the respective
quantity or number of acres, and the best information thry
may be able to obtain, and the said commissioners when
they shall have laid out such ditch or ditches, and completed
such valuation and appraisement as aforesaid, shall cause to
be put up in at least three of the most public places in the
neighborhood of the said marshes and low grounds, written
or printed notice that such ditch or ditches has been laid
out, and of such their completion of such valuation and ap-
praissment of the said marshes and low grounds, and speci-

fying and appointing a time and place for a general meeting
of the said owners of the said marshes and low grounds,
which said time shall not be less than fifteen nor more than
thirty days after the day of advertising or giving such no-
lice, and which said place of meeting shall be at some
convenient place in the neighborhood of said marshes or
low grounds, at which said meeting the said commissioners

Notice for meeting

shall constitute a board of appeal, and shall hear and de-
termine all and every the objections, grievances, and com-
plaints of all and every person or persons, who may consider
him, or herself, or themselves aggrieved by such appraise-
ment or valuation as aforesaid, and the said commissioners so
sitting as a board of appeal, is aforesaid, shall have power to

Board of Appeal

make such alteration in such valuation and appraisement as
upon a full hearing and consideration of all circumstances,
they may deem just and equitable, and the said commission-
ers after having as such board of appeal, settled and adjusted
such valuation and appraisement of the said marshes and low
grounds as aforesaid, shall make out under their hands, a
certificate containing the names of the respective owners of
the said marshes and low grounds, the quantity held by each
owner and the appraisement of the several quantities held by
each owner or by joint owners, respectively, according as the
same shall have been settled and adjusted by the said commis-

sioners so setting as a board of appeal as aforesaid, and the
said commissroners shall deliver or cause to be delivered, such
their certificate into the clerks office of Queen Anne's county,

Certificate of ap-

praisements