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same, and note the courses and distances thereof; and at the end of each 

 mile, shall mark the number thereof, on a tree, or a monument erected 

 by them for that purpose ; and the commissioners and surveyor of each 

 road shall make *a certified return of the survey and plat of the whole 

 length of the road, specifying therein the distance the same is laid out 

 in each county, and whether, in their opinion, the public convenience 

 requires the establishment of the road, or any part thereof; one com- 

 plete copy of which return shall be signed by a majority of the road 

 commissioners and the surveyor, and immediately deposited in the com- 

 missioners' office in each county in which any part of the road is laid 

 out, and the auditor of the county shall file the same in his office. 



SEC. 4622. [Notice by advertisement.] If the commissioners 

 report in favor of the establishment of the road, the county commis- 

 sioners of the respective counties shall, at their next session after the 

 filing of the report, order the auditor to cause a notice thereof to be 

 published in some newspaper of general circulation in the county, for 

 four consecutive weeks before the next meeting of the board, notifying 

 all parties interested in the establishment of the same, that the com- 

 missioners of the counties will hear parties in favor of or against the 

 establishment of the road, and the application for damages, and com- 

 pensation for lands appropriated, of any person on account of the location 

 of the road through his lands. 



SEC. 4623. [Second publication of notice.] All persons who do 

 not make application for compensation or damages at the next regular 

 session of the commissioners, after the publication of such notice, shall 

 be considered and held to have released all claim to damages by reason 

 of the location of the road ; and if there be any lands, the owners of which 

 have not granted the right* of way, nor filed their application for dam- 

 ages with the county commissioners, the whole case shall be continued to 

 the next regular session of the commissioners, and they shall again order 

 the auditor to cause notice to such owners and all other persons, inter- 

 ested, to be published in some newspaper of general circulation in the 

 county, for four consecutive weeks before their next meeting, that they 

 will, at such meeting, hear all applications for damages. 



SEC. 4624. [Appointment of officers to assess damages.] If any 

 person consider himself aggrieved by the location or widening of the 

 road through his premises, he shall file a petition in writing, describing 

 the lands in which he claims damages, with the commissioners of the 

 proper county, at their next regular session after the publication of 

 the notice provided for in the preceding sections ; and the commissioners 

 shall appoint a jury of three disinterested freeholders of the county, 

 who, after taking an oath to faithfully and, impartially discharge the 

 duties imposed upon them by this chapter, shall proceed to view the road 

 the entire distance the same may have been located through the premises 

 of the complainant, and of minors, idiots, lunatics, or insane persons, 

 where the same are known, and assess the compensation to be paid in 

 money for the property sought to be appropriated, without deduction 

 for benefits arising from the location of the road ; but the petitioners for 

 the road, or any one of them, may obtain a relinquishment of damages 

 and ri^ht of way from any person through whose land the road mav 

 be located. 



SEC. 4625. [Payment of damages.] If the commissioners are 

 that the amount so assessed and determined by the jury afore- 



