EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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extended, widened, straightened, or closed up, to be established

or closed up as the case may be.

56M. If any person or corporation to whom any damages

have been awarded or against whom any benefits have been

Right of ap-
peal to Cir-

assessed shall feel aggrieved by the decision of the Burgess and

cuit Court.

Council, he shall have the right of appeal to the Circuit Court

for Washington County ; provided, written notice of an inten-

tion to appeal be served upon the Burgess or one of the Coun-

cilmen within ten days after the same decision shall have been

filed ; and the same proceedings shall be had on such appeal

as in cases of appeal from judgment of justices of the peace;

provided, nevertheless, that the Burgess and Council shall not

be compelled to accept the judgment of the Circuit Court for

Washington County, but may decline to lay out, open, extend,

widen, or straighten or close up any street, lane, alley, square,

highway, sewer, sanitary sewer, watercourse or drain ; and in

case of such refusal by the Burgess and Council all costs in-

curred shall be paid by the Burgess and Council.

56N. All benefits assessed against any lot or parcel of ground

or the owner or occupant thereof shall be a lien against said

Benefits as-
sessed to be a

lot or parcel of ground from the time the Burgess and Council

lien against

shall finally order the opening, widening, extending, straight-

the property.

ening, or closing up of any street, highway, lane, alley, square,

sewer, sanitary sewer, drain or watercourse, as the case may

be; and it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Burgess and

Council immediately upon the passage of such order by the

Burgess and Council to certify, under his hand and seal of the

corporation, to the tax collector the amounts of benefits so as-

sessed against any lot or parcel of ground, who shall forthwith

enter the same on his books against the property so assessed ;

the tax collector shall collect such benefits as other taxes are

collected ; provided, that no property be sold for the payment

of benefits until after the expiration of six months from the

date of the passage of the order of the Burgess and Council

in the premises.

56O. The notice herein provided to be given by the Bur-

gess and Council shall apply in all cases whether the owners

To apply to

of property to be affected by their proceeding be residents or

all cases.

non-residents, infants, non compos mentis, or laboring under

any other legal disability.

56P. The Burgess and Council shall have charge of all re-

To have charge

pairs and improvements of the streets, alleys, highways, lanes,

of all im-

squares, sewers, sanitary sewers, drains and watercourses of

provements.

the town.