364 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 197

jections, provided a written order for such appeal shall be filed
with said County Commissioners within ten days from the

passage of such order; the parties to such appeal to be ar-
ranged in the record of proceedings as their actual interests
may require. The person or persons so appealing shall within
thirty days from the date of the appeal pay or tender to the
chief clerk and auditor of said County Commissioners the cost
of the record of proceedings in 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 con-
sidered 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 convenient, 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 appeal, 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 assessments of benefits or award
of damages within the time heretofore 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 subject of the appeal
is affirmed by the judgment on said appeal, shall be and be-
come due and payable to the County Treasurer of Baltimore
County, and any and all such assessments for benefits shall
be and become a tax and lien upon the property, real and per-
sonal, of the person or corporation against whom said assess-
ment 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