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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Board of County Commissioners, file with said com-

missioners his, her, their or its objection in writing,

and said County Commissioners shall, after five days'

notice to each side interested, or the attorneys

Proceed to

thereof, or as soon thereafter as practicable, proceed

consider

to consider the award, return, report, plat and pro-

ceeding of said examiners and all the proceedings

in said case; and the said County Commissioners

may ratify and confirm, reject, reverse, alter, amend

or correct, award, return, report, plat and proceed-

ings of said examiners and all the proceedings in said

case, or may, in their discretion, send back to said

examiners or to a new Board of Examiners, in case

Advisable

they deem it advisable, the award, return, report,

plat and proceedings of said examiners for alteration,

correction or amendment; and any person interested

in said proceedings may appeal from the final order

of ratification or rejection of the report of said Board

of Examiners by the County Commissioners of said

county to the Circuit Court thereof; provided said

appeal is taken within thirty days from the passage

of said final order of ratification or rejection; and

provided, further, that the cost of the record in case

Proviso

of appeal shall be paid or tendered to the Treasurer

of said county or to the Clerk of the County Com-

missioners within thirty' days from the date of said

appeal; and in case the costs of said appeal are not

paid or tendered as aforesaid, within the period afore-

said, it shall be lawful for said County Commission-

ers to proceed to act in the premises as if no such

Appeal.

appeal had been taken ; and in case, any appeal is

taken as aforesaid to the Circuit Court for said county,

and a motion is filed to quash the proceedings in

said case, any of the proceedings may be amended

as to matters of form, so that the case may be tried

on its real merits, and the purposes of justice sub-

served, or the court may in its discretion remand said

case to said County Commissioners for alteration,

correction or amendment; and when final judgment

is entered by the Circuit Court in any case, said

court may determine whether the costs shall be paid

by the appellant or appellee, and such amendment

may be made at any time before the jury retire to

make up their verdict, in case of jury trial, and in

cases of trial before the court, at any time before

judgment is entered.