778 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

thereon, or unless such person shall waive such notice. Any
person interested may appeal to the Circuit Court for
Baltimore County from the final order of ratification or
rejection of such report or award by the County Com-
missioners of Baltimore County, the parties to such appeal to be
arranged in the record of proceedings as their actual interests
may require, said appeal to be taken within the time and sub-
ject to the provisions hereinafter contained. If after the pro-
ceedings aforesaid it shall be finally determined that a road
shall be opened, altered, relocated or closed as aforesaid, then,
the entire cost thereof, including a sufficient amount to refund to.
the depositor the preliminary cost, and all damages to be paid
persons found to be damaged by such proposed work, shall be
deemed due and payable by the persons or district funds to whom
or which the same was assessed as aforesaid and such assessment
or award shall be considered a tax and lien upon the property,
real and personal, of the person or corporation assessed, 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
of the final order of ratification of such award or return, may be
collected by the Treasurer of the County by an action
of debt or in the same manner as other taxes are ordinarily col-
lected, or by a bill in equity at the instance of the Treasurer for
the enforcement of such lien. When all of such assessments;
shall have been paid into the County Treasury as aforesaid,
the said County Commissioners shall give an order on
the Treasurer for the repayment to the depositors of the
amount paid into the Treasury by them for preliminary
expenses as above provided. No work shall be done on said
road nor any contract made therefor, and if the petition be for
the closing of a road, no final order closing such road shall be
passed, until all the assessments made as aforesaid shall have
been actually paid into the County Treasury, and when any
new road is to be opened or old one altered or improved, the
work may be given out by contract or be done by the
said County Commissioners under the direction of the
Roads Engineer and superintendence of the Road Super-
visors of their district, as the said County Commissioners
may determine; provided the contract price or cost of con-
struction of such road as the case may be shall not exceed
the amount of the net assessments collected for that pur-
pose, and the said County Commissioners shall not pay in
full for the making of such road until the same shall have
been thoroughly examined and accepted by them, and when so