JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 757

person shall feel aggrieved by the determination of
the said commissioners in ratifying or rejecting
said award or return, or in the amount of com-
pensation awarded, or in any matter relating to
the same, may appeal within sixty days of said
ratification or rejection to the Circuit Court for
Prince George's county, and either party may be
entitled to a trial by jury, and the judgment of said
court shall be final among the parties; provided that the person taking such appeal shall, within
twenty days thereof, cause to be delivered to the
clerk of the said Circuit Court the award filed with
said commissioners, together with a copy of the order
of said commissioners, ratifying or rejecting the
same, and all other papers relating thereto ; but this
section shall not be construed or taken to deprive or
deny the right of the commissioners of Laurel to
accept any streets or alleys which may have been or
may hereafter be dedicated or opened by the owner
or owners of the ground in said streets or alleys for
the use of the public (but the same may be deemed
streets and alleys when opened for such use), with-
out proceeding in the manner indicated in this sec-
tion ; but no street or alley given or dedicated shall
be considered under the control or to be kept open
and in condition at the expense of the said commis-
sioners without action by said commissioners, either
in accepting or in condemning the same ; and said
commissioners may enact all ordinances from time	Exercise of
to time necessary and proper to the exercise of	powers.
the powers granted in this section; provided that
before opening or condemning any street or alley
at least twenty days' notice shall be given by them
of any application which may be made for the pas-
sage of any such ordinance by notices posted in not
less than three public places in said town.
SEC. 24. And be it enacted, That on the same day
on which commissioners are to be elected under this
act, and on every first Monday in May in each and
every second year thereafter, one person, a legal	Elect treas- urer.
voter in said town, may be chosen by the voters of
said town as treasurer of said corporation, to serve
for two years, and until his successor shall qualify,
whose duty it shall be to keep an account of the re-
ceipts and disbursements of the funds of the cor-