960 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

by corporations, municipal or otherwise, as fully as though
they were a corporation named in the several sections of said
laws.

177R. In all cases where there is any growing timber, build-
ings, stone or other property of value, on any property dedi-
cated to the county by grant for road purposes, opened by the
said County Commissioners as a public road, as herein pro-
vided, or otherwise acquired by the said Commissioners for
such purposes, such growing timbers, buildings, stone or other
property of value, shall be deemed 'and taken to become and
be the property of the said Commissioners, to be used or dis-
posed of for road purposes, unless the contrary shall be stipu-
lated in the grant of the same, the return of the examiners,
the proceedings of condemnation, or by written agreement of
the said Commissioners.

177s. Any person having property or individual rights in-
volved and feeling aggrieved by any final decision of the said
County Commissioners affecting such rights, including its final
decisions in all matters in this sub-title specified, shall have
the right to appeal from such final decision to the Circuit Court
for said county; provided, that all such appeals shall be taken
and the cost of the record paid or tendered to the Clerk of the
said Commissioners within thirty days from the rendering of
such decision and passage of an order in conformity therewith,
and if such appeal is not so taken, or costs not so paid or ten-
dered within said thirty days allowed for same, the right of
appeal and all other rights in connection with such appeal
shall be considered waived; on the taking of such appeal and
the payment or tender of the costs thereof, as aforesaid, it
shall be the duty of the Clerk to the said Commissioners to
forthwith prepare a transcript of the proceedings and trans-
mit the same to the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Montgomery
county; such appeal shall be tried at the term of the court
then being held, or as soon thereafter as convenient for the
court, and upon such trial the court shall give such judgment
as shall be proper, including the matter of costs, which in no
event shall be given against the said County Commissioners
unless they be a party to the proceedings, and the judgment so
given shall be certified to the said Commissioners by the Clerk
of said court.

The proceedings on such appeal shall not be quashed be-
cause of any formal defect, and any of the proceedings may be
amended as to matters of form as fully as if such case had
originated in said court, so that the case may be tried on its
merits, and the purposes of justice subserved, or the court may
in its discretion remand said case to the said County Commis-