788 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 556]

said commissioners, which said valuation and assessments shall
be ratified or rejected by the said commissioners as in their
judgment may seem proper; and if any person shall feel
aggrieved by the determination of the said commissioners in
ratifying or rejecting said award "or return, or in the amount
of compensation awarded, benefits assessed, or in any matter
relating to the same, he may appeal within sixty days after
said ratification or rejection, to the Circuit Court for Caroline
county, and either party may be entitled to a trial by jury, and
the judgment of the said Court shall be final among the parties
to such appeal; provided, that the person taking such appeal
shall within ten days apply to the said commissioners for the
same in writing, and within twenty days thereof cause to be
delivered to the clerk of the Circuit Court aforesaid a copy of
said award filed with the said commissioners, together with a
copy of the order of said commissioners ratifying or rejecting
the same, and all other papers relating thereto, and the said cor-
poration shall be liable for and tender the damages thus assessed
and determined by the said Court, if such decision is rendered
against them, to the persons entitled, or, if rejected, to hold the
same to his credit and for his use, or shall collect or receive any
amount to which the decision of the said Court may entitle
them, and the said commissioners shall have full power to
assess and levy, either generally on the whole assessable prop-
erty of said town, or especially on the property of persons so
assessed to be benefited thereby, the whole or any part of the
amount of damages and expenses that they shall ascertain will
be incurred in locating, opening, constructing, straightening,
widening, extending, improving, draining, paving, repairing,
closing or sewering, the whole or any part of any street, lane
or alley in said town, and to collect the same in the manner
hereinbefore provided for the collection of the general tax levy.
SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect
from the date of its passage.

Approved April 11, 1912.

CHAPTER 556.

AN ACT making appropriations for the support of the State
Government for the fiscal year ending on the thirtieth day
of September, nineteen hundred and thirteen.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Mary-
land, That for the expenditures in the support of the State