4104 ARTICLE 17.

receive the same, or the title to the property be taken is in dispute, the
town snail not be entitled to possession of the said property until the com-
pensation therefor be paid into the Circuit Court of Montgomery County,
to be held for the person entitled to receive the same.

(F) In case the town, or any person affected by such proceedings, shall
feel aggrieved by the verdict of the commissioners, appeal may be taken
within twenty days of the approval of said verdict to the Circuit Court
of Montgomery County. The party appealing shall perfect his appeal by
filing with the Town Clerk a written notice of his intention so to do within
said twenty days, and thereupon the clerk shall, within twenty days from
said notice, file a complete transcript of the proceedings with the Clerk
of the Circuit Court; and said cause, unless the appeal be dismissed,
shall be tried de novo in said court at the next jury term 'of said court
after said transcript is filed in all respects as other trials had in said
court. The verdict of the jury shall conform in all respects to the
requirements of this section and shall have the same force and effect as
the verdict of said commissioners. The assessments shall be paid within
same time, and until paid bear the same rate of interest as is above pro-
vided, and shall stand as a judgment and be a lien on the several parcels
of property charged superior to all other liens from the date of the ordi-
nance, and if not paid within thirty days from the filing of the verdict of
the jury an execution shall issue against the several lots or parcels of land
against which assessments for benefits are so made, which execution shall
describe the parcel of ground and the amount assessed against the same,
as shown by the verdict of the jury, and state that the assessment has been
made to pay compensation for property taken for the purpose specified in
the ordinance, and be directed to the Sheriff of Montgomery County, and
command him, in case said assessment, interest and costs be not paid, to
sell the property therein described, or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary, to pay the same. The proceedings under said execution, including
the making of the deed to the purchaser, shall conform to ordinary pro-
ceedings on execution in said court, and the deed of the sheriff, made pur-
suant thereto, shall convey a good title to the purchaser. All moneys col-
lected in said Circuit Court, shall be forthwith paid to the Treasurer of
said town for disbursement to the parties entitled thereto.

1929, ch. 169, sec. 14.

960. All fines, penalties and forfeitures imposed by this Charter, or
by any ordinance of 'the Council, may be collected in the name of the
"Town of Takoma Park," before the Mayor or any justice of the peace,
in the same manner as small debts are collected, and the delinquent shall
be committed to the town lock-up or county jail until the same are paid,
with costs.

1929, ch. 169, sec. 15.

961. Whenever it shall become neecssary, for any purpose under this
Charter, to serve a notice or process of any kind whatsoever upon any
persoN or persons owning property within the limits of said town who