504 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be signed and certified by the examiner or examiners, and de-
posited in the office of the Highways Commission, and the
same shall be filed by them as one of the records of the. county;
the said examiner or examiners shall within ten days after de-
positing said statement, plat and profile with the Highways
Commission, "notifying all persons interested by an advertise-
ment, to be inserted once a week for three successive weeks in
one or more newspapers in Baltimore county, and in one or
more newspapers of general circulation, published in Baltimore
city, that said statement, plat and profile have been deposited
with the Highways Commissioners; and any person or corpora-
tion that may be dissatisfied with the award for damages or of
benefits assessed, may at any time within thirty days after the
first publication of said notice, appeal therefrom by petition in
writing to the Circuit Court for Baltimore county, praying
said court to review the same, and the court shall direct the
clerk of said court to issue a subpoena duces tecum to the High-
ways Commissioners, requiring them to produce and deliver to
said court the statement, plat and profile; and the said court
shall have full power to hear and fully examine the subject, and
decide on said appeal, and the person appealing shall have the
right of a jury trial; the said court shall not neglect or set
aside the statement and proceedings of said examiner or exami-
ners for any defect or omission in either form or substance, but
shall amend or supply all defects and omissions and increase or
reduce the amount of damages awarded, or of benefits assessed
in any case, and alter, modify and correct the statement in all
or any of its parts, as the said court shall deem just and
proper; and in case a motion is filed to squash the proceedings
in said case, or any other objections are taken to any of the
proceedings, the same'may be amended as to matters of form,
so that the case may be tried on its real merits, and the pur-
poses of justice subserved; and in case of any motion to squash
for matters of form or substance, where the defect in said pro-
ceedings set up by said motion cannot be remedied by amend-
ment, but shall be capable of being cured or remedied, or where
said proceedings may be perfected by the examiner or exami-
ners, it shall be the duty of the court, instead of squashing said
proceedings to remand the same to said examiner or examiners
for that purpose, whenever the ends of justice may be secured
and delay or expense may be saved thereby; and when final
judgment is entered by the Circuit Court in any case, said
court may determine whether the costs shall be paid by the
appellant or appellee, and the amendment aforesaid may be
made at any time before the jury may retire to make up their
verdict, in case of a jury trial, and in case of trial before court,
at any time before judgment is entered; and if no appeal shall