CAEROLL COUNTY. 1861

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 7, sec. 158. 1884, ch. 509.

420. In opening, establishing, widening or closing any roads, streets,
lanes or alleys, all damages done or suffered thereby, if not agreed upon
by the Burgess and Commissioners and the person damaged, shall be
determined and assessed by three distinterested persons of good judgment,
residents of said town, to be appointed by said Burgess and Commission-
ers, and who shall take an oath before a justice of the peace for said
county that they will faithfully value the damages to be suffered by the
person interested, and shall return the damages assessed, under their
hands and seals, with a certificate of their oath from the said justice of
the peace, to the Burgess and Commissioners at their meeting immediately
following said assessment of damages, which said assessment of damages
shall be ratified or rejected by said Burgess and Commisioners, or a ma-
jority of them; and any person feeling aggrieved by the determination of
the Burgess and Commissioners may, within sixty days from such deter-
mination, appeal to the Circuit Court for Carroll County, and the judg-
ment of said court shall be final; and upon any appeal being taken it
shall be the duty of said Burgess and Commissioners to transmit the
papers connected with the case to the clerk of said court; and before mak-
ing any attempt to open, establish, widen or close any road, street, lane
or alley, it shall be the duty of the Burgess and Commissioners to tender
and pay, or cause to be tendered or paid to the person damaged, the amount
of damages assessed and finally awarded; provided always, that no pri-
vate property shall be taken for corporate use without compensation to the
owner thereof.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 7, sec. 159. 1884, ch. 509. 1927, ch. 266, sec. 159.

421. The Burgess shall appoint annually a bailiff for said town, which
appointment shall be subject to the approval of the Commissioners and
the said bailiff in the execution of the duties of his office, within the cor-
porate limits of said town, shall have all the powers and authority of a
constable; he shall pay over to the clerk and treasurer all moneys coming
into his hands for and on account of the said corporation, and shall re-
ceive the same fees in the performance of his duties as bailiffs or consta-
bles do in like cases and for like services, and such compensation for any
other duties required of him as shall be provided by ordinance of said
corporation.

And the Burgess and Commissioners shall appoint a tax collector for
said town, from among the qualified voters thereof, who shall, before en-
tering upon his duties as such tax collector, give bond to said corporation,
in such penalty as may be prescribed by ordinance, with security, to be
approved by the Burgess and Commissioners, for the faithful discharge
mid performance of his duties under this subtitle; he shall be the col-
lector of all taxes levied by said corporation, and shall collect said taxes
by distress or execution in the same manner as the county taxes for Car-
roll County are now collected, and shall for that purpose have all the
powers and indemnities in his office that the tax collectors of the county