1620 ARTICLE 6.

said Commissioners, which said valuation and assessment shall be ratified
or rejected by the said Commissioners, as they in their judgment may
deem proper; and if any person shall feel aggrieved by the determina-
tion of the said Commissioners in ratifying or rejecting said award or
return, or in the amount of compensation awarded, benefits assessed or
in any manner relating to the same, he may appeal within sixty days after
said ratification to the Circuit Court for Caroline County, and either
party shall be entitled to a trial by a jury, and the judgment of said
court shall be final among the parties of such appeal; provided, that the
person taking such appeal shall, within ten days, apply to said Commis-
sioners for the same in writing, and in twenty days thereafter cause
to be delivered to the clerk of the Circuit Court aforesaid a copy of said
award filed with said Commissioners, together with a copy of the order
of the said Commissioners ratifying or rejecting the same, and all other
papers relating thereto, and the said corporation shall be liable for and
tender any damages thus assessed and determined to the persons entitled,
or if rejected, hold the same to his credit and for his use; and the said
Commissioners shall have full power to assess and levy, either generally
on the whole assessable property of said town, or specially on the prop-
erty 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
included in locating, opening, extending, widening, straightening, laying
or closing up the whole or any part of any street, lane, alley, sewer or
drain, in said town, and to collect the same in the manner hereinbefore
provided for the collection of the general tax levy.

1906, ch. 284, sec. 28.

299. The expenses and costs of paving, repairing or otherwise improv-
ing the sidewalks in said town, incurred by the said Commissioners under
the ordinances, may be charged and recovered by them, in the name of the
corporation, from the owner of the property fronting thereon, in propor-
tion to the amount expended in the immediate front on said property,
by suit or action at law against the owner thereof, as other debts are
collected; and the expense of such paving shall be a lien upon the property
chargeable therewith.

1906, ch. 284, sec. 29.

300. A tenant for more than five years, for life, and a mortgagee in
possession, as well as the holder in fee, shall be deemed and taken as
owner for the purpose of the two preceding sections.

1906, ch. 284, sec. 30.

301. All taxes, whether general or special, levied by said Commis-
sioners upon any house or parcel of land within said town, which is not in
the tenancy and occupation of the owner thereof, may be charged to the
tenant or other occupant, who shall be lia.ble to like process for the payment
thereof; and the tenant or other occupant paying said taxes may charge the