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CAROLINE COUNTY. [ART. 6.
or in the amount of compensation awarded, or in any

Right of appeal
to circuit court

matter 'relating to the same, may appeal, within sixty
days of said ratification or rejection, to the circuit court
for Caroline county, and either party may be entitled
to trial by jury, and the judgment of said court shall

Priviso.

be final among the parties; provided, that the person
taking such appeal shall within twenty days thereof,
cause to be delivered to the clerk of the said circuit
court the award filed with said commissioners, together
with a copy of the order of said commissioners ratify-
ing or rejecting the same, and all other papers relating
thereto.

Pay of officers,
&c.

119. The said commissioners may allow their clerk,
treasurer, assessor and bailiff and other employees, such
reasonable compensation as they may deem proper and
pay the same from the fund hereinbefore provided to
be raised by a direct tax on the assessable property in
said village.

Present officers
to continue till
successors ap-
pointed

120. All persons holding offices under the present
corporation of said village, and all persons elected or
appointed under the provisions of this article, shall
hold such offices until their successors shall have been
elected or appointed and qualified.

Approved March 31, 1870.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE AND CONSTABLES.