AGREEMENT AS TO DAMAGES.
(Use form "Release of Damages" to the * then substitute to the next * as follows:) do hereby "agree to and with the said supervisors that the damages sustained by us by reason of laying out (or altering, or discontinuing) said road be ascertained and fixed, and the same are hereby ascertained and fixed as follows: (Describe the lands, give the owners' names, and the amounts agreed on;" and conclude as in form "Release of Damages.")
AWARD OF DAMAGES.
State of __________, county of __________, town of __________, ss.:
Whereas, a road was laid out (or altered or discontinued) on the day of __________, A.D. 18_____, by the undersigned supervisors of the said town of __________, on the petition of (six) legal voters, owning real estate, or occupying real estate under the homestead or pre-emption laws of the United States, or under contract from the state of __________, within one mile (or eight legal voters, freeholders and residents of the town within two miles) of said road; which said road (or alteration, or discontinuance) is set forth and described in the supervisors' order as follows, viz.: Beginning (describe the road as in the order laying it out.) And not being able to agree with the owners of the following described lands, claiming damages by reason of said highway passing through, we have assessed the damages to each of such individual claimants with whom we could not agree, and awarded damages to the owners of such lands through which such highway passes as are unknown, at what we deemed just and right; taking into account and estimating the advantages and benefits the road will confer on the claimants and owners, as well as the disadvantages. We have assessed and awarded damages as follows:
(Here give a particular description of each tract of land and its owner, if known; but if not known, state that fact also.)
And in case of the following lands and claimants for damages, we estimate that the advantages and benefits said road will confer on them are equal to all damages sustained by them by reason of laying out (or altering, or discontinuing) said road, to-wit: (Set forth lands and owners as far as known; and describe the unknown lands, stating that the owners are unknown.) (Dated, and signed by the supervisors.)
APPLICATION FOR JURY.
State of __________, county of __________, town of __________, ss.
To J.P., justice of the peace in and for said county: