ART. 12.] GARRETT COUNTY. 819

for sites for any public works or improvements in said town,
and repairing roads, streets, lanes and alleys, and to open,
locate, close, alter, widen, lengthen and re-locate the same;
and that whenever they shall pass an ordinance to open, locate,
widen, alter, lengthen or re-locate a public street, lane, road
or alley, or condemn any land for a building site or other pur-
poses, they shall immediately appoint three examiners, who
shall be voters and freeholders of said town, who, after being
sworn, and giving two weeks' notice of their appointment, and
time and place of meeting, go upon the ground to be condemned,
or upon the street, lane, alley or road so proposed to open,
locate, widen, lengthen, alter or re-locate, such streets, lanes,
alleys or roads, and shall cause the same to be surveyed by a
competent surveyor, and shall estimate the damages or bene-
fits, if any, to the person or persons who own said lands so
condemned, or over whose lands the proposed street, lane, alley
or road passes, or whose land is in any way affected by the
proposed opening, locating, widening, altering, lengthening or
re-locating, and shall return an account of the proceedings,
under their hands, to the said Mayor and Council, who, before
actually using said land so condemned, or opening, widening,
lengthening or altering said streets, lanes, alleys or roads, as
the case may be, shall pay or tender to the person or persons,
his or their agents or legal representatives, the amount of
damages so awarded, and if any person shall feel aggrieved by
the award of said examiners, he may take an appeal to the
Circuit Court for Garrett county within ten days after said
award is returned by the said examiners, and the said Mayor
and Council shall thereupon file the said return in the office of
the clerk of the Circuit Court for Garrett county, and the
court shall, as soon as convenient thereafter, hear and deter-
mine upon the said award, affirm the same or remand it for a
new hearing. Nothing herein shall prevent the said Mayor
and Council from opening, locating, widening, lengthening or
altering any street, lane, alley or road with the consent of the
owner of the land which shall be taken for said purposes, and
to agree and pay said owner a reasonable sum therefor.

SEC. 111J 1/2. And be it enacted, That the County Commis-
sioners of Garrett county shall retain jurisdiction over the
county roads and bridges inside the corporate limits of the
town of Friendsville, and the Mayor and Council of Friends-
ville shall have jurisdiction and supervision over all sidewalks
along said county road, and regulate the speed of travel of
persons on horse back or in vehicles over the county roads and
bridges in Friendsville by ordinance, and impose and collect
fines for a violation of said ordinances".