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of three disinterested and competent persons, residents of and free- 

 holders in said county, as commissioners to ascertain and appraise 

 the compensation to be made the owners of or persons interested in 

 the real estate within the lines of the street or avenue laid out, as 

 provided by this act, or of such portions- or sections of the same as 

 may be sought to be condemned under the provisions of this section, 

 and shall fix the time and place for the first meeting of such commis- 

 sioners. The said court may also appoint another or others to act 

 in the place of any one or more of such commissioners who may die, 

 decline to serve, remove from the county, be or become interested in 

 the improvement, or from any cause, may be or become disabled or 

 incompetent to serve. The said Commissioners of Appraisal shall be 

 sworn before a justice of the Supreme Court faithfully and impartially 

 to perform the duties which shall devolve upon them by virtue of 

 said appointment, and are hereby authorized to cause such maps to 

 be made as may be necessary in the performance of their duties and 

 to employ competent persons therefor. On such maps shall be 

 designated by feet and inches, as near as may be, the street or ave- 

 nue laid out as provided by this act, or such portion or section thereof 

 as such commissioners are appointed to appraise, and by numbers 

 the several pieces of land and buildings necessary to be taken for 

 the improvement, and the map or maps so prepared when delivered 

 shall form a part of the report of the said commissioners. 



Section VI. Section seven of said act is hereby amended so as 

 to read as follows : 



Section VII. The said Commissioners of Appraisal shall proceed 

 with all reasonable diligence in the performance of their duties, and 

 for that purpose they shall have power to enter upon any premises 

 affected by the said improvement ; to hear the allegations and proofs 

 of the parties interested at such times and places as they may 

 appoint, and to continue such hearing by adjournment from time to 

 time as they may deem proper. Any one of their number may 

 administer oaths to the witnesses who may appear before them, and 

 they shall make a report to the Supreme Court signed by them or a 

 majority of them, of the proceedings before them, with the minutes of 

 the testimony taken before them, if any. Said report shall be made in 

 a tabular form, in columns, in which shall be given the number on the 

 map of the pieces of land required for the improvement, the names 

 of the persons interested in the property taken for the improvement 

 and the nature of their interest, and the amount awarded to the dif- 

 ferent parties, and so many and such other different columns and 

 tabular statements as may be necessary to state the true interests of 

 the parties in the premises. 



There shall be added to said act a section to b.e known as Section 

 Eight. 



Section VIII. After the said report shall be completed, it shall 

 be filed by the said commissioners in the office of the Clerk of the 



