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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

a justice of the peace for said county that they will faith-

fully value the damages to be suffered by the person inter-

ested, 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 mayor and council at their

meeting immediately following said assessment of damages,

which said assessment of damages shall be ratified, or

rejected by said mayor and council, or a majority of them;

and any person feeling aggrieved by the determination of

the mayor and council 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 an appeal being taken it shall be the duty of said

mayor and council 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 mayor and council

to tender and pay, or cause to be tendered, and 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.

SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the mayor shall appoint

annually a bailiff for said town, which appointment shall be

Bailiff.

subject to the approval of the council; before said bailiff

enters upon the discharge of his duties he shall file with the

clerk of said corporation a bond, with security, to be

approved by the mayor and council, made to the said cor-

poration, for the faithful discharge and performance of his

duties under this sub-title of this article, and under the

ordinances passed by said council ; and in the execution of

the duties of office ; within the corporate limits of said town,

he shall have all the powers and authority of a constable;

he shall pay over to the clerk and treasurer all moneys com-

ing into his hands for and on account of said corporation ;

he shall be collector of all taxes levied by said corporation,

and shall collect said taxes by distress or execution in the

same manner as the county taxes for Carroll County are now

collected, and shall for that purpose have all the powers

and indemnities in his office that the tax collectors of the

county taxes of Carroll County now have ; he shall imme-

diately upon the collection of any money for taxes, pay the

same over to the clerk and treasurer of the corporation, and

he shall be subject to suit on his bond and criminal prosecu-

tion as the tax collectors of Carroll County now are ; he

shall receive the same fees in the performance of his duties

as bailiffs, as bailiffs or constables do in like cases and for