722 CARROLL COUNTY. [ART. 7.

missioners, who when sworn shall be authorized to value and
assess said damages and benefits upon and among said property
holders accordingly, and to prescribe the duties and the compen-
sation of said commissioners; to provide for the condemnation of
all land and property so taken for public use in laying out, open-
ing, extending, altering or widening any road, street or alley as
aforesaid; to provide for the notice to be giyen in relation thereto
for the payment of the damages to the respective parties so
awarded, and for the collection and mode of payment of the
benefits so assessed by said commissioners, Avhich, when not paid
on demand, may be recovered against the several parties liable
thereto by the said mayor and common council in any action al-
lowed by law, and with power to pass all ordinances necessary
and proper to the exercise and enforcement of the powers granted
in this section; provided, that if any persons owning lands or
property taken or condemned for public uses under the powers
vested in the said mayor and common council by this section may
feel aggrieved or be dissatisfied with the amounts of damages al-
lowed them by said commissioners as aforesaid, when returned to
and adopted by said mayor and common council, and desire a
jury trial to determine the same, they shall have the right to ap-
peal therefrom to the circuit court for Carroll county within twenty
days next thereafter.

1870, ch. 185.

82. They may pass all ordinances necessary for the good govern-
ment and general police of the town, and enforce the observance
of such ordinances by fines and penalties not exceeding twenty
dollars for any one offence.

1886, ch. 123.

83. Any justice of the peace in and for Carroll county,
resident in said town of Manchester, and if none so resident,
then any such justice of the peace resident in the sixth elec-
tion district of said county, on complaint made before him
of the violation of any ordinance of said corporation, shall issue
process in the name of the said mayor and common council,
to recover the fine or penalty imposed for the violation of
such, ordinance against the person so offending, and said justice
of the peace may hear and determine the matter as any case