240 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 117]

to the proceedings, unless otherwise specified in the judgment
of condemnation.

6. From any judgment that the property be condemned, or
dismissing the petition, an appeal may be taken to the Court of
Appeals within ten days after the entry of said judgment, but
not afterward, and the record shall be sent up to the Court of
Appeals within thirty days after the entry of the appeal.

Every appeal from any judgment in proceedings under this
act shall stand for hearing at the next term after the record
is received by the clerk of the Court of Appeals, if the Court
be not sitting, or at the pending term if the Court be in ses-
sion, and the Court of Appeals may advance any such appeal
as to the Court may seem proper, if the final decision be that
the petitioner is not entitled to condemn the property a reason-
able counsel fee to be fixed by the Court shall be awarded to
counsel for the defendant and taxed against the petitioner,
together with the other costs of the case.

7. The State, and any "municipal or other corporation,
commission, board, body or person, which under the laws of
this State, has the right to acquire property by condemnation,
shall acquire such property, if condemnation proceedings be
resorted to, in pursuance of, and under the provisions of, this
article, anything in any other Public General Law or Public
Local Law or private or special statute to the contrary not-
withstanding; provided, however, that nothing in this article
contained shall apply to or change the present law or procedure
for the opening, closing, widening or straightening of highways.

8. In any proceedings under this article, the petitioner
shall pay all the costs in the lower Court to be taxed as in
ordinary actions at law, and also the cost of the compensation
to the appraisers to be fixed by the Court, and also the usual
per diem to the jurors, in the case of a jury trial, which shall be
taxed among the costs of the case, to be paid by the petitioner.
The costs in the Court of Appeals, in any appeal from any
proceedings under this article, shall be paid as directed by said
Court, in the same manner as costs in appeals from ordinary
actions at law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take
effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 8, 1912.