EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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and decide on said appeal, and for that purpose is hereby

authorized and empowered to adjourn from time to time, and

may cause all such appeals to be consolidated, or may hear

and decide them separately, and may require the said Commis-

sion, its clerks, engineer and other agents or servants, or any

of them, and all such other persons as the court shall deem

necessary to attend, and examine them under oath or affirma-

tion, and may permit and require all such explanations, amend-

ments and additions to be made to and of the said record of

the proceedings, as the court shall deem requisite; and the

persons appealing to the Baltimore City Court, as aforesaid.

shall be secured in the right of a jury trial, and the said

court shall direct the Sheriff of Baltimore City to summon

twelve or more persons qualified to be jurors, and shall em-

panel any twelve disinterested persons so summoned, or at-

tending the court, to try any question of facts, and, if neces-

Baltimore

sary, to view any property in the said burnt district, to ascer-

City Court to
try all ques-

tain and decide on the amount of damages or benefits under

tions of facts

the direction of the court ; and the said court shall not reject

or set aside the record of the proceedings of the said Com-

mission for any defect or omission in either form or substance,

but shall amend or supply all such defects and omissions and

increase or reduce the amount of damages and benefits as-

sessed, and alter, modify and correct the said return of pro-

ceedings in all or any of its parts, as the said court shall deem

just and proper, and shall cause the proceedings and decision

on said returns and appeals to be entered in the book con-

taining the record of the proceedings of the Commission.

certified by the clerk, under the seal of the court, and the

book to be transmitted to the City Register, which shall be

final and conclusive in every respect, unless an appeal be

taken to the Court of Appeals, and such record book or a copy

of the proceedings therein, or any part of such proceedings.

whether in court or out of court, certified by the City Register,

under the corporate seal of the city, shall be evidence in any

court in this Slate, and the judge of the Baltimore City Court

shall have full power, in his discretion, to add the reasonable

The Court's

costs of any appeal, to be taxed by him or any part thereof

power in the

to the damages to be collected for laying out, opening, extend-

premises.

ing, widening or straightening any such street, lane or alley.

or for establishing any building line or width of any side-

walk, or for laying out any public square or market space, or

for laying out any addition or extension to the basin or har-

bor, or to the public wharves or docks, or to require such

costs or any part thereof to be paid by all or by either of the