2122 ARTICLE 9.

liquors shall pay the license herein provided for, for more than one of such
kind of business. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this sec-
tion shall upon conviction pay a fine of not less than fifty nor more than
two hundred dollars for each offense, and upon failure to pay the same
together with the costs of prosecution, shall be committed to jail and con-
fined therein until such fine and costs are paid, or for a period of forty
days, whichever shall first occur. No prosecution before justices of the
peace for violation of any of the sections of this Act or the article of which
this Act is amendatory, or of any of he ordinances passed in pursuance
thereof, shall fail or any of the proceedings therein be invalid, because of
any defect or error in matter of form, and the same shall be amendable to
such extent as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying out the intent
of the provisions of this Act.

1912. ch. 770. sec. 116F.

195. Whenever the said Commissioners shall decide that it is expedi-
ent that any road, street, lane or alley, as aforesaid, within said corporate
limits, shall be opened, widened and straightened, changed or closed, or
make subways, as provided in Section 175, unless they shall be able to
make satisfactory contracts necessary for the same or unless the necessary
lands or easements in or over the same shall be donated for the purposes,
they shall appoint three disinterested persons, residents of the town, to
assess all damages done, suffered and incurred by the opening, widening,
straightening, changing or closing of any such highways, streets, lanes or
alleys, or the construction of any such subways, and any benefits or ad-
vantages accruing to any person by the same, or any one of them, as the
case may be; the said Commissioners shall within ten days after notifica-
tion of their appointment take an oath before a justice of the peace of the
town that they will faithfully, fairly and without partiality or prejudice
value and assess the loss and damage to be suffered and incurred by and
the benefits to accrue to any person interested in the property over which
the highways, roads or streets, alleys or lanes are to be opened, closed,
straightened, widened or changed, or such subways to be cut or con-
structed; and they shall give at least ten days' notice by notice posted at
the courthouse door of the time and place of meeting for the purpose of
executing their commission; they shall within ten days after such valu-
ation and assessment report the same in writing under their hands and
seals, with the certificate of their qualification as hereinbefore provided,
to the Commissioners of the town, which said valuation and assessment
shall be ratified or rejected by them as in their judgment may seem proper;
and if any person shall feel aggrieved by the determination of the Com-
missioners in ratifying or rejecting or the amount of compensation award-
ed, less benefits and advantages accruing or in any manner relating to the
same, he may appeal within thirty days after said ratification or rejection
to the Circuit Court for Charles County; either party may be entitled to
a trial by jury, and the judgment of said court shall bo final among the
parties; providing, that the person taking the appeal shall within ten days