1832.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 180.

before all Justices of the Peace in this State; and the said
appraisement and valuation of the said marshes and low.
grounds so as aforesaid to be made, shall be the rate of

For ten years.

assessment for all taxes levied under this act, for and du-
ring the term of ten years next after the last Saturday in
April, and until commissioners shall again be chosen by
the said company in the same manner, and shall in the
same manner as prescribed in this section complete and

Certificates and

record

in Delaware.

certify into the Recorder's office of Kent county in the
State of Delaware aforesaid, another valuation and ap-
praisement of the said marshes and low grounds to be re-
corded as aforesaid, which said other appraisement and
valuation of the said marshes and low grounds being so

Conclusive and

legal.

completed, returned and recorded as herein directed for
the first, shall be thenceforth the rate of assessment for all
taxes levied under this act, and shall be binding and con-
clusive upon all parties, and a copy of the record thereof
certified by the said Recorder, under his hand and seal of
office shall be good and sufficient evidence in all courts of
justice, and before all Justices of the Peace in this State,

For ten years

for and during the term of ten years next after the last
Saturday in April of the year in which the same shall be
completed, and until another valuation and appraisement

And subsequently

shall in like manner be made, and so tolies quoties for
every period often years, reckoning from the last Saturday
in April of the year in which any valuation and appraise-
ment of the said marshes and low grounds shall have been
made, so that a new valuation and appraisement as afore-
said, may be had by the said company every ten years, and
in any such other or new valuation and appraisement, the
commissioners shall not be confined to the same marshes

Authority to in-

clude other low
grounds, &.c.

and low grounds only, which shall have been included in
any previous valuation and appraisement, but may include
any other marshes and low grounds which they may be of
opinion are or will be benefited or improved by any ditch
or ditches which may or shall have been, or may be open-

Additional drains

ed, and may proceed to lay out with the assistance of some
skilful surveyor by them to be appointed, other ditches mak-

Plats and explana-

tions

ing into some part of the original ditch; and the said com-
missioners shall cause to be made out a plot of the' said
ditch or ditches so by them laid out,with explanatory notes,
and representing the several courses and distances there-
of, and of the several prongs thereof, and the breadth and
depth of the same, or of the several sections thereof, if of
different breadths or depths in different parts, and shall
cause the said plot to be delivered together with their