1506 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 526

system or the cost of constructing and establishing the exten-
ion to the existing system, as the case may be, upon the persons
interested in proportion to the amounts to which they are bene-
fited or damaged thereby. And the said County Commission-
ers of Baltimore County shall then cause notice to be given to
all persons assessed of the assessments respectively so made on
them by said County Commissioners by publication once in

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each of two successive weeks in one or more newspapers pub-
lished in Baltimore County, and of the day upon which ob-
jections to said assessments of benefits and damages will be
heard, such date to be not more than sixty days from the date
of the return of the examiners aforesaid. If any person in-
terested shall feel aggrieved by the assessment or award so
made, he shall file in writing with the said County Commis-
sioners on or before the day set in said notice for nearing ob-
jection to such assessments or awards, and the said County
Commissioners on the dav so fixed shall hear testimonv and ar-

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gument upon such objections, and shall consider the same, and
said objections, the awards and assessments and all other pro-
ceedings in the matter, and may then by their order confirm,
alter, amend or correct the said awards and assessments, or any
of them and if no appeal be prayed from the said order of said
County Commissioners so passed within ten days said order
shall become final and effective. Any person interested may
appeal to the Circuit Court for Baltimore County from the
order of the said County Commissioners passed upon such ob-
jections provided a written order for such appeal shall be filed
with said County Commissioners within ten days from the pa&-
sage of such order; the parties to such appeal to be arranged
in the record of proceedings as their actual interests may re-
quire. 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
coats 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 records of such proceedings. Such
appeal shall be tried at the term of said court then being held,