, HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR

SEC. 121. Any person who shall feel ag-
grieved by the decision of the Commissioners
appointed to lay out such streets, as to the
amount of damages allowed him or benefits
assessed against him, may appeal therefrom

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at any time within thirty days after said Com-
missioners shall have made their return to the
Circuit Court of Garrett county, which said
appeal shall be taken by filing written notice
thereof with the Clerk of the Council, who
shall thereupon, without unnecessary delay,
transmit to said Court a record of the proceed-
ings of said Mayor and Council and of said
Street Commissioners in said matter, and said
appeal shall be docketed upon the trial docket
of the next succeeding term of said Circuit
Court, the party taking said appeal to be
docketed as plaintiff, and said Mayor and Coun-
cil as defendant, and said party appellant shall
therefore be entitled to a Jury trial to assess
the amount of damages payable to or of bene-
fits chargeable against him, as the case may
be. and the amount assessed as such damages
or benefits by said Jury shall stand in the place
and stead of the assessment thereof by said
Commissioners, and upon said appeal it shall
be competent for the Clerk to quash the pro-

Appeal.

ceedings upon the motion of the appellant for
errors or omissions rendering the same fatally
defective; and upon trial of said cause in
said Circuit Court, either may take bills of
exceptions to any rulings of said Court upon
matters of law arising in the progress of such
trial, and either party may appeal to the Court
of Appeals of this State from any such rulings,
or from the action of said Court in quashing
or refusing to quash such proceeding.

SEC. 122. The Mayor and Council may, when
requested in writing by the owners of a ma-
jority of the front feet of the property on any

Trial.

or parts thereof in said town, cause the same
to be graded, paved, sewered or otherwise im-
proved, and levy the expense thereof on the
property binding on such street or alley, agree-
able to the extent of such lots thereon, and

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pense of.