STATE OF MAINE.

IN SENATE, March 24, 1845.

ORDERED, That 500 copies of this report with the accompanying resolves be printed for the use of the Legislature.

J. O. L. FOSTER, Secretary,

TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE.

No. 32.1

[HOUSE.

STATE OF MAINE.'

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND

FORTY-FIVE.

AN ACT relating to appeals from County Commis

sioners.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represent2 atives in Legislature assembled—as follows:

3 SECTION 1. In all appeals from the judgment of the 4 county commissioners now pending before the su

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preme judicial court in any county in this State, it 6 shall be lawful for said court or any justice thereof to 7 appoint three disinterested persons, whose duty it shall 8 be, after giving such notice as the court shall order, 9 to view the route prayed for in the original petition, 10 and afterwards to give a hearing to the parties and 11 their witnesses, and thereupon at the next term of the 12 court held in said county to report whether in their 13 opinion the judgment of the county commissioners

Wm. T, Johnson, Printer to the State.

14 should be affirmed or reversed, in the whole or for 15 any part, which report when accepted by the supreme 16 judicial court shall be final and conclusive upon the 17 subject matter of said petition.

SEC. 2. When the report is accepted as aforesaid. 2 the proceedings shall be remanded to the court of 3 county commissioners, and there recorded at the term 4 held next after the acceptance by the supreme judicial 5 court, and all persons aggrieved by said decision in 6 estimating damages, shall present their petitions for 7 redress as now provided by law upon decisions of 3 county commissioners at that term and not afterwards, 9 and the county commissioners shall proceed upon said 10 decision of the supreme judicial court in the same 11 manner and in all other respects as upon a return of 12 the doings of county commissioners.

SEC. 3. The said committee shall be paid for their 2 travel and attendance the same that is allowed to 3 county commissioners for similar services, out of the 4 county treasury; and if the original judgment of the 5 county commissioners shall be affirmed in whole or in 6 part, the appellants shall pay all costs that have arisen 7 since the appeal, and the county commissioners sha 8 issue their warrant therefor in the same manner as is 9 now provided for the collection of costs awarded 10 against petitioners.