EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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event the said Road Directors shall give an order or orders

upon the said County Treasurer to the person or persons who

may have paid such sum or sums to said Treasurer for the pur-

pose aforesaid for the amount or amounts respectively paid by

them.

216O. When no objections shall have been filed within the

time hereinafter designated, or if objections shall have been

Objections; not
filed,

filed and shall have been finally overruled, and the road peti-

tioned for shall have been finally allowed and confirmed by the

Road Directors, or when, if an appeal shall have been taken

to the Circuit Court and the action of the Road Directors

shall have been confirmed by said court, then in every such

case the said Road Directors shall record or cause to be re-

corded such road as a public road of Allegany County, and the

award or awards for damages shall be paid by the Road Direc-

tors by means of orders on the County Treasurer to the per-

son or persons or body corporate entitled to receive the same

within ninety days from the ratification of said award and

report, and the award, if it shall be for the benefits accrued to

the property owners, shall be considered a tax and lien upon the

property against which the same shall be assessed and may be

Tax and lien
upon property

collected by the said Road Directors by suit against the owners

of such property, or may be collected and enforced in any other

manner provided by law for the collection of taxes and the

enforcement of liens against real estate, and the same shall

be paid over to the Treasurer of said county within ninety days

from the time the award and report are finally ratified and con-

firmed, as aforesaid ; and if not then paid, the same shall be col-

lected by the Road Directors by process of law as above pro-

vided ; provided, however, that thirty days' notice shall in all

Thirty days'

cases be given to the owner or owners of the property taken

notice to be
given.

for such roads or left upon the premises in case the owner

is unknown of. the amount or amounts of damages allowed

to such owner or owners and all the benefits awarded against

such owner or owners; and provided further, that in case the

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Proviso.

damages allowed by said examiners to any person or persons

of body corporate shall be increased either by order of said

Road Directors or by the Circuit Court for said county upon

appeal from the decision of said Road Directors, or in case

the amount of benefits assessed against any person or persons

or body corporate by said examiners be decreased either by

order of the Road Directors or by the Circuit Court for said

county upon appeal from the order of the Road Directors, then

the parties petitioning for said road shall pay pro rata accord-

ing to their assessments the deficit caused by said increase of