62.1-119 - Oath of commissioners; duties; report.
§ 62.1-119. Oath of commissioners; duties; report.
The commissioners, before entering upon their duties, shall take an oathfaithfully to perform the same, and thereupon shall proceed to inquire andascertain, if the leave be granted, whether the mansion house of any person,or the outhouses, yard, garden, or orchards thereto belonging, will beoverflowed or taken; whether and in what degree ordinary navigation and thepassage of fish will be obstructed; whether by any, and if any, by what meanssuch obstruction may be prevented; and whether the health of the neighborswill be annoyed by the stagnation of the waters or otherwise. They shall alsocircumscribe so much of the lands, not owned by the applicant, as may benecessary for the canal, dam, or work to be constructed as aforesaid, notbeing (beyond what is in the bed of the watercourse) more than one acre for adam, nor more than 100 feet in width for a canal, and shall ascertain whatwill be a just compensation therefor. Any lands which will probably beoverflowed or deprived of water, or otherwise injured by such canal or dam,or be injured by the construction of the work aforesaid, shall likewise beexamined by them, and they shall ascertain what will be a just compensationto the several owners thereof, for the damage to the same respectively. Allof which matters the commissioners shall set forth in a report, which theyshall make out, sign, and return to the court by which they were appointed.
(Code 1950, § 62-98; 1968, c. 659.)