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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

by publication in one or more newspapers of Baltimore county
once a week for two successive weeks, and that objections

Objections.

thereto may be filed with the County Commissioners within
thirty days from the first publication of said notice, and shall
furnish to the County Commissioners a report of such assess-
ment; and if any person or body corporate, or district, acting
through its supervisor, shall feel aggrieved by the award, report,
return or proceeding of said board of examiners, he, she or it,
within thirty days after said report is tiled in the office of the
County Commissioners, shall file his, her or its objection in
writing, and the County Commissioners, after tive days' notice
to each side interested, or as soon thereafter as practicable,
shall proceed to consider the award, return, report, plat and
proceedings of said examiners, and all the proceedings in said
case, and they may ratify and confirm, reject, reverse, alter,
amend or correct the award, return, report, plat and proceed-
ings in said case, or may, in their discretion, send back
to said examiners the award, return, report, plat and pro-

Right of
appeal

ceedings for alteration, correction or amendment; and any
person interested in said proceedings may appeal from the
final order of ratification or rejection of the County Com-
missioners of said county to the Circuit Court for said
county; provided, said appeal is taken within thirty days from
the passage of said final order of ratification or rejection; and
provided further, that the cost of the record, in case of appeal,
shall be paid or tendered to the clerk of the County Commis-
sioners within thirty days from the date of said appeal; and
in case the said costs of said appeal are not so paid or tendered
within said period, it shall be lawful for the County Commis-
sioners to proceed to act in the premises as if no such appeal
had been taken; and in case any appeal is taken to the Circuit
Court for said county, and a motion is filed to quash the pro-
ceedings in said case, any of the proceedings may be amended
as to matters of form, so that the case be tried on its merits,
and the purposes of justice subserved; or the Court may, in
its discretion, remand said case to the County Commissioners
for alteration, correction or amendment; and all persons so

Jury trial.

appealing to the Circuit Court for Baltimore county shall be
secured in the right to a jury trial; and the said court shall
direct the sheriff of Baltimore county to summon twelve or
more persons, qualified to be jurors, and shall impanel any
twelve disinterested persons so summoned to try any questions
of fact, and, if necessary, to view any property in question,
and to determine the proper amount of damages or benefits
due on account of the same; and when final judgment is