1280 GARRETT COUNTY. [ART. 12,

widened, straightened or re-located, and to enact all ordinances
from time to time, necessary for the proper carrying out of the
powers granted; provided, that before they shall proceed to
execute any of said powers, at least thirty days' notice shall be
given of any application which may be made for the passage of
any such ordinance, by advertisement in at least two newspapers
printed in said town or by handbills; and provided further, that
upon the return of any assessment of damages or benefits, or
both, made under any ordinance passed under this section, the
clerk of said town shall cause a copy thereof to be published once
a week for four successive weeks in two newspapers printed ia
said town, or by handbills; and provided further, that whenever
said mayor and council open, lay out, extend, widen, straighten or
re-locate any street or alley, or any part thereof, they shall estab-
lish, and if in their judgment proper so to do, they shall grade
the same.

1886, ch. 200. .

187. Any person who shall feel aggrieved by the decision of
the commissioners appointed to lay out such streets, as to the
amount of damages allowed him or benefits assessed against him,
may appeal therefrom at any time within thirty days after said
commissioners shall have made their return to the circuit court
for Garrett county, which said appeal shall bo taken by filing
written notice thereof with the clerk of the council, who shall
thereupon, without unnecessary delay, transmit to said court a
record of the proceedings of said mayor and council and of said
street commissioners in said matter; and said appeal shall be
docketed upon the trial docket of the next succeeding term of
said circuit court, the party taking said appeal to be docketed as
plaintiff, and said mayor and council as defendant; and said party
appellant shall be entitled to a jury trial to assess the amount of
damages payable to or 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 commissioners; 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 trial of said cause in said circuit
court, either party may take bills of exceptions to any rulings of