766 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 545]

with such security as the Mayor and the Common Council may
require, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties
of the office of clerk and bailiff, and the Mayor and Common
Council may pass ordinance forbidding any person from carry-
ing firearms or other concealed weapons, and such other ordi-
nance not contrary to law as they may deem proper and bene-
ficial to the town; may restrain and remove nuisances; may
open and close streets, straighten and widen the same, and
improve the same, make crosaways, establish the width and
grade of sidewalks, and pave, and set out shade trees thereon,
and all damage done, suffered and incurred by opening, closing,
straightening or widening said streets or alleys, and any benefits
or advantages accruing to any person by such opening shall be
assessed and determined by three disinterested persons, resi-
dents of said town, to be appointed by the Mayor and Common
Council, who shall within twenty days after the notification of
their appointment, take an oath before a justice of the peace
within said town, that they will faithfully, fairly and without
partiality or prejudice value and assess the loss and damage to
be suffered and incurred by, and the benefits to accrue to any
person interested in the property over which the streets or alleys
are to be opened, closed, straightened or widened, and they
shall give at least ten days' notice, by notice inserted in at least
one and not more than two newspapers published in said Prince
George's county, if there be such a paper or papers published,
and if not so published, then by notice posted in three public
places in said town, of the name and place of meeting for the
purpose of executing their commission; and they shall, within
ten days after such valuation or assessment return the same
in writing under their hands and seals, with a certificate of
their qualification before a justice of the peace, as hereinbefore
provided, to the Mayor and Common Council of the town, which
said valuation and assessment shall be ratified or rejected by
them as their judgment may deem proper; and if any person
shall feel aggrieved by the determination of the Mayor and
Common Council in ratifying or rejecting said award or return,
or in the amount of compensation awarded, or in any matter
relating to the same, he may appeal within sixty days after
said ratification or rejection to the Circuit Court for Prince
George's County, and either party may be entitled to a trial by
jury, and the judgment of said Court shall be final between the
parties, provided that the person taking the appeal shall within
twenty days thereafter cause to be delivered to the Clerk of the
Circuit Court the award filed with the said Mayor and Com-
mon Council, together with a copy of the order of the said