3566 ARTICLE 16.

county roads, and to assess the benefits and award the damages arising
therefrom in the same manner.

1910, ch. 484, sec. 177Q. 1912, ch. 109, sec. 177Q. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 470.

1918, ch. 229, sec. 177Q.

766. The said County Commissioners of Montgomery County shall
have full power to agree and contract with owners of land or materials, the
use of which may be required in connection with the opening of any new
road, for the construction or repair of any bridge, the relocating, straight-
ening or widening of any road, the proper drainage of the roads of the
county, or in connection with any other of the duties under this subtitle,
and if they be unable for any reason to agree with the owners of any such
land or materials, the use of which is required for any such purpose, and
if other provisions of this subtitle shall not in any such case be applicable
or advisable under the circumstances, said Commissioners may proceed to
condemn the same under the provisions of the law relative to condemna-
tion by corporations, municipal or otherwise, as fully as though they were
a corporation named in the several sections of said law.

1910, ch. 484, sec. 177R. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 471.

767. In all cases where there is any growing timber, buildings, stone
or other property of value, on any property dedicated to the county by
grant for road purposes, opened by the said county commissioners as a'
public road, as herein provided, or otherwise acquired by the said commis-
sioners for such purposes, such growing timbers, buildings, stone or other
property of value, shall be deemed and taken to become and be the prop-
erty of the said commissioners, to be used or disposed of for road purposes,
unless the contrary shall be stipulated in the grant of the same, the return
of the examiners, the proceedings of condemnation, or by written agree-
ment of the said commissioners.

1910, ch. 484, sec. 177S. 1912, ch. 109, sec. 177S. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 472.
1918, ch. 229, sec. 177S.

768. Any persons having property or individual rights involved and
feeling aggrieved by any final decision of the said County Commissioners
affecting such rights, including their final decisions in all matter in this
subtitle specified, shall have the right to appeal from such final decision
to the Circuit Court for said County; provided that all such appeals shall
be taken and the cost of the record paid or tendered to the clerk of said
commissioners within thirty days from the rendering of such decision
and passage of an order in conformity therewith, and if such appeal is
not so taken, or costs not so paid or tendered within said thirty days al-
lowed for the same, the right of appeal and all other rights in connection
with such appeal shall be considered waived; on the taking of such appeal
and the payment or tender of the costs thereof, as aforesaid, it shall be
the duty of the clerk to said Commissioners to forthwith prepare a tran-
script of the proceeding and transmit the same to the Clerk of the Circuit
Court for Montgomery County, such appeal to be tried at the term of