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CHAP. 349.
Appeal may
be taken.
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sioners as in their judgment may seem proper; and if any
person shall feel aggrieved by the determination of the said
commissioners in ratifying or rejecting said award or return,
or in the amount of compensation awarded, benefits assessed,
or in any matter relating to the same, he may appeal within
sixty days after said .ratification or rejection, to the Circuit
Court for Caroline County, and either party may be entitled
to a trial by jury, and the judgment of the said Court shall
be final among the parties to such appeal ; provided, that
the person taking such appeal shall within ten days apply
to said commissioners for the same in writing, and within
twenty days thereof cause to be delivered to the clerk of the
Circuit Court aforesaid a copy of said award filed with said
commissioners, together with a copy of the order of said com-
missioners ratifying or rejecting the same, and all other papers
relating thereto, and the said corporation shall be liable for and
tender the damages thus assessed and determine to the persons
entitled, or if rejected, to hold the same to his credit and for
his use; and the said commissioners shall have full power to
assess and levy, either generally on the whole assessable
property of said town, or especially on the property of persons
so assessed to be benefited thereby, the whole or any part of
the amount of damages and expenses that they shall ascertain
will be incurred in locating, opening, extending, widening,
straightening or closing up the whole or part of any street,
lane or alley in said town, and to collect the same in the
manner hereinbefore provided for the collection of the general
tax levy.
SEC. 27. And be it enacted, That the expenses and costs of
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How costs
and expenses
may be
charged.
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paving, repairing or otherwise improving the sidewalks in said
town, incurred by the said commissioners under their ordi-
nances, may be charged and recovered by them in the name of
the corporation from the owner of the property fronting
thereon, in proportion to the amount expended in the imme-
diate front of said property, by suit or action at law against the
owner thereof, as other debts are collected, and the expense of
such paving shall be a lien upon the property chargeable
therewith.
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Who may
toe deemed
owner.
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SEC. 28. And be it enacted, That a tenant for more than five
years for life, and a mortgage in possession, as well as the
holder in fee, shall be deemed and taken as owner for the pur-
poses of the two preceding sections.
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Tax
to be levied.
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SEC. 29. And 1)6 it enacted. That the said commissioners
shall have the power to levy, with the consent of the majority
of said taxpayers, writing in an amount more than thirty cents
on the one hundred dollars, as the necessity may arise.
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