The Board of Education, municipal authorities, or judge aforesaid shall appoint three competent and suitable freeholders of such municipality a board of appraisers, whose duty it shall be to make a careful inspection and examination of all the unclaimed lots or parcels of land aforesaid; and upon each of such lots or parcels of land they shall affix a reasonable and just valuation, and upon the completion of their appraisement they shall make and return a full and complete report of their proceedings and appraisement to the Board of Education, district school board, municipal authorities, or judge of the circuit court, which said report shall contain a full schedule of each and every lot or parcel of land remaining unclaimed, giving an exact description of said lots by their numbers and the numbers of their block, and all parcels of land not so numbered shall be described by metes and boundaries, and upon each lot or parcel of land separately they shall designate the valuation thereof as fixed by their appraisement. Said appraisement and report shall be subscribed and sworn to by at least two of said appraisers.

Source: SL 1883, ch 114, § 3; CL 1887, § 1182; SL 1893, ch 165, § 3; RPolC 1903, § 1584; repealed by omission RC 1919; re–enacted SL 1971, ch 69, § 13; SL 1992, ch 60, § 2.