742 CARROLL COUNTY. [ART. 7.

consistent with this sub-title, the burgess shall cause said work to
be done, and collect the expenses and costs thereof in the manner
that county taxes are collected in Carroll county or by action of
debt.

1884, ch. 509.

158. In opening, establishing, widening or closing any roads,
streets, lanes or alleys, all damages done or suffered thereby, if
not agreed upon by the burgess and commissioners and the per-
son damaged, shall be determined and assessed by three disinterested
persons of good judgment, residents of said town, to be appointed
by said burgess and commissioners, and who shall take an oath
before a justice of the peace for said county that they will faith-
fully value the damages to be suffered by the person interested,
and shall return the damages assessed, under their hands and seals,
with a certificate of their oath from the said justice of the peace,
to the burgess and commissioners at their meeting immediately
following said assessment of damages, -which said assessment of
damages shall be ratified or rejected by said burgess and commis-
sioners, or a majority of them ; and any person feeling aggrieved
by the determination of the burgess and commissioners may,
within sixty days from such determination, appeal to the circuit
court for Carroll county, and the judgment of said court shall be
final; and upon any appeal being taken it shall be the duty of said
burgess and commissioners to transmit the papers connected with
the case to the clerk of said court; and before making any attempt
to open, establish, widen or close any road, street, lane or alley, It
shall be the duty of the burgess and commissioners to tender and
pay, or cause to be tendered or paid to the person damaged, the
amount of damages assessed and finally awarded; provided always,
that no private property shall be taken for corporate use without
compensation to the owner thereof.

Ibid.

159. The burgess shall appoint annually a bailiff for said town,
which appointment shall be subject to the approval of the com-
missioners ; before said bailiff enters upon his duties he shall file
with the clerk of said corporation a bond, with security, to be ap-
proved by the burgess and commissioners, made to the said corpo-
ration, for the faithful discharge and performance of his duties.