PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1679

cupants and the amount of benefits assessed to any lot or par-
cel of ground and filed their decision with their explanatory
map with the Clerk of the Mayor and Council who shall file
the same and record such decision in a book to be kept for
that purpose.

SEC. 186. After the filing of the explanatory map and de-
cision of the Mayor and Council they may order and direct the
said street, lane, alley, square, highway, sewer, sanitary sewer,
water course or drain so laid out, opened, extended, widened,
straightened or closed up, to be established or closed up as the
case may be.

SEC. 187. If any person or corporation to whom any dam-
ages has been awarded or against whom any benefits have been
assessed shall feel aggrieved by the decision of the Mayor and
Council, he or it shall have the right of appeal to the Circuit Court
of Washington County, provided written notice of an intention
to appeal be served upon the Mayor or one of the Councilmen
within thirty (30) days after the said decision shall have been
filed; and the same proceedings shall be had on such appeal as
in cases of appeals from the judgments of Justices of the Peace;
provided, nevertheless, that the Mayor and Council, shall not
be compelled to accept the judgment of the Circuit Court for
Washington County but may decline to lay out, open, extend,
widen, or straighten or close up any street, lane, alley, square,
highway, sewer, sanitary sewer, water course, or drain; and
in case of such refusal by the Mayor and Council all costs in-
curred shall be paid by the Mayor and Council.

SEC. 189. The notice herein provided to be given by the
Mayor and Council shall apply in all cases whether the owners
of property to be affected by the proceedings the residents or
non-residents, infants, non compos mentis, or laboring under
any other legal disability.

SEC. 190. The Mayor and Council shall have control of all
public moneys and shall have the full power and authority to
make and execute contracts, involving expenditures of said
public money and in no case shall the Mayor and Council ex-
pend in any one year a larger sum in repairs and improvements
than the amount derived or to be derived from all sources for
public repairs and improvements during the said year. Each
year on or before the first day of June the Mayor and Council
shall adopt a budget, based upon estimates submitted by the
Mayor and Councilmen as to the needs of their respective de-