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ings, whether in Court or out of Court, certified by the said
commissioners under their hands, shall be evidence in any
Court in this State, and the judge of the Baltimore City
Court shall have full power, in his discretion, to add the
reasonable costs of any appeal, to be taxed by him, or any
part thereof, to the damages to be collected for opening or
closing said street or to require such cost, or any part thereof,
to be paid by all or by either of the appellants, as the circum-
stances of such appeal, in his opinion, shall justify. Upon
every appeal to the Baltimore City Court from any action of
the Commissioners for Opening Streets both the damages and
benefits assessed by the commissioners to the appellant shall be
open for review and correction by the said City Court.

180. Whenever any ordinance passed by the Mayor and City
Council of Baltimore, providing for the condemnation and
opening, extending, widening, grading or closing of any street,
lane or alley, in said city, shall be set aside, or declared null
and void by a court of competent jurisdiction, to wit: The Bal-
timore City Court or the Court of Appeals, in the event of an
appeal to that tribunal, or the same shall, be repealed by the
city, it shall be the duty of the comptroller immediately there-
after to draw his warrant on the city register in favor of any
and all persons or their legal representatives, who may have
paid into the city treasury any sum or sums of money on account
thereof; which shall be forthwith paid out of any sums in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated.' The comptroller shall
likewise draw his warrant on the city register for the payment
of all expenses which may have been incurred by virtue of any
such ordinance in carrying out the provisions thereof, for which
the city may be liable under existing ordinances.

181. If no appeal shall have been prayed, then within ten
clays after the time hereinbefore limited therefor, or after the
return of the decision upon any appeal shall have been made
to the said commissioners, their return shall be transferred to
the city collector, who shall proceed forthwith to notify the
parties assessed for benefits by means of bills specifying the
several sums so assessed, and warning them that if the same
be not paid within two months from the date of such transfer
of said commissioners' returns, ne will proceed to sell the
specific pieces or parts of property on which said unpaid sum
or sums of money shall have been assessed, in the manner, and
after having given the notice directed by this article.

182. If the sums assessed upon the property specified shall
not be paid within the time above limited, the city collector is
hereby directed to sell the property, or any part thereof, on