2742 ARTICLE 12.

cil, to the circuit court for Garrett county, which said appeal shall be
taken by filing a written notice thereof with the clerk of said mayor and
common council, and a similar notice to the clerk of the circuit court for
Garrett county, whereupon it shall be the duty of said clerk of the circuit
court to place said appeal upon the trial docket of the next succeeding
term of said court, and he shall immediately file said original report of
said examiners in said appeal case, which shall be considered the record
in said cause, and he shall make the person or the persons taking said
appeal plaintiff in said cause, and said mayor and common council as the
defendant, and said party appellant shall thereupon be entitled to a jury
trial to assess the amount of damages payable to, or amount of benefits
chargeable against him as the case may be, and the amount, assessed as
such damages or benefits by said jury, shall stand in the place and stead
of the assessment thereof by said examiners, and upon said appeal it shall
be competent for the court to quash the proceedings upon the motion of
the appellant, for errors or omissions rendering the same fatally defective,
and upon the trial of said cause in said circuit court, either party may
take bills of exceptions to any rulings of said court upon matters of law
arising in the progress of such trial, and either party appeal to the court
of appeals of this State from any such rulings, or from the action of said
court in quashing or refusing to quash such proceeding.

P. L. L. 1888, Art. 12, sec. 83. 1886. ch.'201.

141. They may provide for levying and collecting an annual tax of
fifty cents on the owner of every dog, and one dollar on the owner of every
bitch within the town, and they shall cause to be killed every clog and
bitch whose owner shall refuse to pay such tax, or who shall fail to do so
within one month from the time he shall be notified to pay the same.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 12, sec. 84. 1886, ch. 201.

142. They may cause each male inhabitant of said town, of twenty-one
years of age and upwards, to work in the streets, lanes and alleys of said
town, under the supervision of the bailiff, one day in each year; and if
any person as aforesaid, after having been summoned in writing one day
previous to the day appointed by the bailiff for working the streets, lanes
or alleys, shall fail to appear or provide some person in his stead, he shall,
on conviction before a justice of the peace, be fined one dollar and costs;
and in case of failure or refusal to pay the same, he shall be committed
for a period not exceeding two days, to the public jail or town lock-up;
and the bailiff shall receive for his services under this section not exceed-
ing one dollar per day that he is actually engaged in working on said
streets, lanes and alleys.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 12, sec. 85. 1886, ch. 201. 1900, ch. 166. 1922, ch. 87, sec. 85.

143. They may annually levy a tax for the expenses of the corporation
upon the taxable property within the town limits, real and personal, except
public and private securities and book accounts, and such property as may