ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

will be incurred in laying out, opening, widen-
ing, straightening, extending, or closing of any
street, alley or lane, or grading the same ; to
provide for collecting and paying the compensa-
tion awarded to any person before any street
shall be opened, laid out, widened, straightened,
extended or closed, and to enact all ordinances
from time to time necessary or proper to the ex-
ercise of the powers . granted in this section ;
provided, that before they shall proceed to exe-

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cute any of the powers vested in them by this
section, at least thirty days' notice shall be given
of any application which may be made for the
passage of any such ordinance by advertisement
in two newspapers printed in Garrett county ;
and provided further, that upon the return of
any assessment of damages or benefits, or both,
made under any ordinance passed under this
section, the clerk of said town shall cause a copy
thereof to be published once a week for four
successive weeks, in at least two newspapers
printed in said county ; and provided further,
that whenever the said mayor and common coun-
cil open, lay out, widen or extend any street,
lane or alley, they shall establish the grade
thereof, and if, in their judgment, proper so to
do, they shall grade the same,
SUB-SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That if any

To give notice

person shall feel aggrieved by the decision of
the commissioners appointed to lay out such
streets, alleys, or lanes as to the amount of
damages allowed him or benefits assessed
against him, may appeal, therefrom at any time
within thirty days after said commissioners
shall have made their return to the circuit court
for Garrett county, which said appeal shall be
taken by filing written notice thereof with the
clerk qf said common council, who shall there-

Right of ap-
peal.

upon, without unnecessary delay, transmit to
said circuit court a record of the proceedings of
said mayor and common 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 court, the
party taking said appeal to be docketed as plain-
tiff, and said mayor and common council as de-
fendant; and said party appellant shall there-

Transmit
record.