LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 345

179. The Mayor and City Council of Baltimore or any per-
son or persons, or corporations, who may be dissatisfied with
the assessment of damages or benefits, as hereinbefore pro-
vided, may, within thirty days after the return of the corrected
statement and map or maps to the Register, and the first pub-
lication of the notice thereof by the Register, appeal therefrom
by petition, in writing, to the Baltimore City Court, praying the
said Court to review the same, and on any such appeal the
Court may and shall appoint a day for hearing said appeal, which
shall not be less than five or more than thirty days after the ex-
piration of the thirty days limited for taking appeals as afore-
said, and shall direct the clerk of the said Court to issue a sub-
poena duces tecum to the City Register, requiring him to produce
and deliver to said Court the record of the proceedings of the
said Commissioners in the case, and all maps, plats, documents
and papers connected with such record, and the said City Court
shall have full power to hear and fully examine the subject,
and decide on the said appeal, and for that purpose is hereby
authorized and empowered to adjourn from time to time, and
may cause all such appeals to be consolidated, or may hear and
decide them separately, and may require the said Commission-
ers, their Clerk, Surveyor, or other agents and servants, or any
of them, and all such other persons as the Court shall deem
necessary, to attend, and examine them on oath or affirmation,
and may permit and require all such explanations, amendments
and additions to be made to and of the said record of the pro-
ceedings as the said Court shall deem requisite ; and the per-
sons appealing to the Baltimore City Court, as aforesaid, shall
be secured in the right of a jury trial, and the said Court shall
direct the Sheriff of Baltimore City to summon twelve or more
persons qualified to be jurors, and shall empanel any twelve
disinterested persons so summoned, or attending the Court, to
try any question of facts, and if necessary to view any property
in the City, or adjacent thereto, to ascertain and decide on the
amount of damages or benefits, under the direction of the
Court ; and the said Court shall not reject or set aside the rec-
ord of the proceedings of the said Commissioners for any defect
or omission in either form or substance, but shall amend or sup-
ply all such defects and omissions, and increase or reduce the
amount of damages and benefits assessed, and alter, modify and