PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, GOVERNOR. 1703

said appeal to be taxed as the cost of records in the several
Circuit Courts for the counties of this State are taxed, and if
said appeal is not so taken, and said costs so tendered or paid,
the right of appeal and all other rights in connection with said
appeal shall be taken and considered as abandoned and waived;
upon the taking of such appeal, and the tender or payment of
said costs, the Chief Clerk and Auditor of the said County
Commissioners shall prepare and transmit to the Clerk of the
Circuit Court for Baltimore County a transcript of the record
of such proceedings. Such appeal shall be tried at the term
of said Court then being held or as soon thereafter as con-
venient, and at such trial either party shall have the right to a
jury trial as in cases at common law; any of the proceedings may
on such appeals be amended as to matters of form as fully as the
proceedings in appeal from Justices of the Peace may be
amended. Upon the trial of such appeal the Court shall give
such judgment in the matter as may be proper, including costs,
and the judgment so given shall be certified by the Clerk of said
Court to the said County Commissioners. If no appeal shall
be taken from any order ratifying or confirming said assess-
ments of benefits or award of damages within the time hcretofore
specified, or if on any appeal the said assessment or award is
confirmed in whole or in part, then said assessments imposed by
said order, or in the case of an appeal to the extent to which
the assessment or awards made in said order which is the sub-
ject of the appeal is affirmed by the judgment on said appeal,
shall be and become due and payable to the County Treasurer
of Baltimore County, and any and all such assessment for bene-
fits shall be and become a tax and lien upon the property, real
and personal, of the person or corporation against whom said
assessment may be made, to the same extent and as fully as State
and County taxes, and subject to the same limitation as to time;
if not paid within thirty days from the time when they shall
respectively become payable, said assessments may be collected
by the Treasurer of the County by an action of debt or in the
same manner as other taxes are ordinarily collected, or by a
bill in Equity at the instance of the Treasurer to enforce such
lien; and upon any order awarding damages becoming final,
or in the event of an appeal to the extent that such order in
affirmed on appeal, the damages so awarded shall become due
and payable to the County Commissioners of Baltimore County.

And upon the collection of the money so assessed the said
County Commissioners shall at once proceed to construct, estab-