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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

widen, straighten, extend or close any such street or alley as they

may determine is proper, in accordance with said application ;.

they shall then, within the period of sixty days from the comple-

tion of their work make a report of their proceedings, giving width

of any such street or alley to said mayor and common council, to-

Proceed-
ings.

gether with a plot of said street or alley, and in their report they

shall give their reasons as to whether the public welfare or con-

venience requires the same or not, and the amount of damages, if

any, that shall he awarded to the parties whose property or rights

are affected thereby; and provided, further, that it shall be the

duty of said mayor and common council to cause a copy of said

report and plat to be retained and recorded among the proceed-

ings of said corporation, and said original report shall be forth-

with sent to the clerk of the circuit court for Garrett county, to

be by him recorded among the land records of said county, after

confirmation by said mayor and common council, as hereinafter

provided; and they shall have the right to confirm or reject the

same at any time after sixty days from the filing of said report;

provided, further, that said mayor and common council shall have

power to assess either generally on the whole assessable property

in said town, or specially on the property of the persons benefited,

the whole or any part of the damages and expenses which will be
in curred in laying out, opening, widening, straightening, extending

Expense

or closing of any such street or alley, or grading the same, which

grading they shall have the right to do in their discretion, and

they shall have power to provide for collecting and paying for

any such compensation or expenses; and provided, further, that

the compensation of said examiners, or any two of them who shall

see proper to act, shall be at the rate of three dollars per day for

their services, and they shall also have the right to employ a sur-

veyor, whose compensation shall be at the rate of four dollars per

day, which said expenses shall be assessed with the other expenses

of said proceedings, in the discretion of said mayor and common

council.

SEC. 82. If any person shall feel aggrieved by the decision of

said mayor and common council, upon the report of said exami-

ners, he or they may appeal therefrom at any time within sixty

days after said report snail have been filed and ratified, or rejected

by said mayor and common council, to the circuit court for Gar-

rett county, which said appeal shall be taken by filing a written

Appeal.

notice thereof with the clerk of said mayor and common council,

and a similar notice to the clerk of the circuit court for Garrett

county, whereupon it shall be the duty of said clerk of the cir-

cuit court to place said appeal upon the trial docket of the next

succeeding term of said court, and he shall immediately file said

original report of said examiners in said appeal case, which shall

be considered the record in said cause, and he shall make the per-

son or the persons taking said appeal plaintiff in said cause, and