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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

which will be applied under the direction of the
Light House Board, as soon as the proper site
can be obtained at a just value; Therefore,

Commission-
ers appointed
to value.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That John Crouch Tolson, Wm. W.
R. Goodhand, of Queen Anne's county, and Isaac
Denson of the city of Baltimore, be and they are
hereby appointed commissioners to ascertain and fix
a fair value upon any site or sites which may be
selected at or near Love Point by any authorised
agent of the United States, for the purpose of estab-
lishing a Light House, a house far the keeper to live
in, and a garden spot thereon, with a power to said
commissioners to fill vacancies in their body, to fix
and determine the value of the land required by the
agent of the United States, for the aforesaid object,
and they or a majority of said commissioners shall be
and are hereby authorised after they have given thirty
days notice in two of the most convenient newspa-
pers to value and appraise said land, taking into
consideration the advantages and disadvantages to
the proprietor or proprietors attendant upon the
establishment of a Light House as aforesaid on
the land aforesaid, and including in said valua-
tion a reasonable allowance for the use and privi-
lege of a road from the said land, through the
lands of any proprietor or proprietors if any such
road shall be deemed or found necessary and the
decision of a majority of the commissioners afore-
aforesaid shall be considered conclusive and final be-
tween the parties unless an appeal shall thereafter be
prosecuted as is hereinafter provided, and the value of
the land together with the right of way thereto as
aforesaid being paid or offered to be paid to said
commissioners or to the proprietor or proprietors
thereof, the United States shall thenceforward be
considered the true and lawful owners of the said
land, and of the said right and privileges of way for

Proviso.

the purposes aforesaid; Provided always, That if
the said commissioners or the owner or owners of the
said land, and of the said road so as aforesaid
valued, his, her or their guardian or guardians,
husband or husbands shall conceive him, her or
themselves aggrieved by such valuation of commis-
sioners and shall notify to the said commissioners the
same in writing, it shall and may he lawful for said
commissioners or a majority of them to issue their