In the new system, the state supreme court would appoint three "commissioners of appraisal and estimate" for the street to be openedgenerally local surveyors or other people familiar with the area the street would pass throughto evaluate the cost of the land being taken, and the beneficial value of the new street to the landowner. The appraisal commission could assess the city with as much as a third of the cost of the openingraised to 50% in 1869and the remainder of the cost would come from the difference between the beneficial value and the value of the property. The supreme court would then review the figures and ask for revisions or approve them. The result was "binding and conclusive."