MONTGOMERY COUNTY. 3567

Court then being held, or as soon thereafter as convenient for the Court,
and upon such trial the Court shall give such judgment as shall be proper,
including the matter of costs, which in no event shall be given against the
said County Commissioners unless they be a party to the proceedings, and
the judgment so given shall be certified to the said Commissioners by the
Clerk of said Court.

The proceedings on such appeal shall not be quashed because of any
formal defect, and any of the proceedings may be amended as to matters
of form as fully as if such case had originated in said court, so that the
case may be tried on its merits, and the purposes of justice subserved,
or the court may in its discretion remand said case to the said County
Commissioners for alteration, correction or amendment. All persons so
appealing, or against whom such appeal is taken, shall have the right to
a trial by jury of all issues of fact involved in such appeal as fully and
in same manner as though the case had originated in the said court.

1912, ch. 790, sec. 473.

769. The proceedings on such appeal shall not be quashed because of
any formal defect, and any of the proceedings may be amended as to mat-
ters of form as fully as if such case had originated in said court, so that
the case may be tried on its merits, and the purposes of justice subserved,
or the court may in its discretion remand said case to the said county
commissioners for alteration, correction or amendment. All persons so
appealing, or against whom such appeal is taken, shall have the right to
a trial by jury of all issues of fact involved in such appeal as fully and
in the same manner as though the case had originated in said court.

1910, ch. 484, sec. 177T. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 474.

770. The said county commissioners shall have the power to issue
subpoenas for witnesses, and the president thereof shall have power to
administer the oath to any witness who may be examined before the said
commissioners, said oath to have all the qualities of an oath taken before
any other judicial tribunal or officers, and violations thereof to be pun-
ishable as other perjuries are punishable, and the said commissioners shall
have full power to give judgment in any hearing before it as to costs,
which judgment shall be enforceable in the same manner as other judg-
ments for costs rendered by competent tribunals.

1910, ch. 484, sec. 170U. 1912, ch. 109, sec. 177U. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 475.
1918, ch. 229, sec. 177U.

771. Said Commissioners shall have the power to require all notices
provided by this subtitle to be given, or which it may be necessary to give
in the course of any of the proceedings, to be served by any of the con-
stables of the Montgomery County, and to allow the sum of forty cents
and no more for the service of every such notice; and any constable fail-
ing to serve any such notice or making any false return as to such service,
shall be punishable as for other similar violations of duties required by
law to be performed by him.