82 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 32]

notice provided in section 177, appeal by petition, in writing,
to the Baltimore City Court, praying the said Court to review
the same, and on any such appeal the Court shall appoint a
day for hearing said appeal, which shall not be less than five
or more than thirty days after the expiration of the thirty
days limited for taking appeals as aforesaid, and shall direct
the clerk of the said Court to issue a subpoena duces tecum to
the clerk of the Commissioners for Opening Streets, requiring
him to produce and deliver to said Court the record of thp
proceedings of the said commissioners in the case, and all maps,
plats, documents and papers connected with such record, and
the said City Court shall have full power to hear and fully
examine the subject, and decide on the said appeal, and for
that purpose is hereby authorized and empowered to adjourn
from time to time, and may cause all such appeals to be con-
solidated, or may hear and decide them separately, and may
require the said commissioners, their clerk, surveyor, or other
agents and servants, or any of them, and all such other persons
as the Court shall deem necessary, to attend, and examine them
on oath or affirmation, and may permit and require all such
explanations, amendments and additions to be made to and of
the said record of the proceedings as the said court shall deem
requisite; and the persons appealing to the Baltimore City
Court, as aforesaid, shall be secured in the right of a jury
trial, and the said Court shall direct the Sheriff of Baltimore
City to summon twelve or more persons qualified to be jurors,
and shall impanel any twelve disinterested persons so sum-
moned, or attending the Court, to try any question of facts,
and if necessary to view any property in the city, or adjacent
thereto, to ascertain and decide on the amount of damages or
benefits, under the direction of the Court; and the said Court
shall not reject or set aside the record of the proceedings of the
said commissioners for any defect or omission in either form
or substance, but shall amend or supply all such defects and
omissions and increase or reduce the amount of damages and
benefits assessed, and alter, modify and correct the said return
of proceedings, in all or any of its parts, as the said Court
shall deem just and proper, and shall cause the proceedings
and decisions on said returns and appeals to be entered in
the book containing the record of the proceedings of the com-
missioners, certified by the clerk, under the seal of the Court,
and the book to be transmitted to the said commissioners, which
shall be final and conclusive in every respect, unless an appeal
be taken to the Court of Appeals, and such record book, or a
copy of the proceedings therein, or any part of such proceed-