ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 281

penalty of two hundred dollars ($200. 00), payable to the State
of Maryland, for the use of the Commissioners of Cambridge,
conditioned, that if the appellant shall not prosecute his appeal
with effect, then the said bond and the said appellant to be
liable for all the costs, expenses and damage to the City of Cam-
bridge, on account of the said appeal, but if the said appeal
should be prosecuted with effect then the said bond to be void,
and should the said appeal be taken it shall be noted upon the
records of the Commissioners, and the said appeal bond filed
with them, the Clerk to the Commissioners shall make a copy
of all the proceedings and send the same, with the said bond, to
the Clerk of the Circuit Court, who shall place the case upon
either the Civil Appeal or the Civil Trial docket of the Circuit
Court, whichever the Court shall direct and in order to prevent
delay, the Court may hear the matter of the appeal in recess,
so as to determine the rights of the matter, the said appeal to
transfer to the said Court all the proceedings which shall be
subject to review by the, Court, and the Clerk of the Court shall,
after the action of the Court on the appeal, as soon as possible,
certify to the Clerk to the Commissioners, the judgment of the
Court in the ease, which certificate shall be recorded immediate-
ly after the said ordinance, or final order passing the same
and immediately after the entries showing that the appeal was
taken. No appeal shall be heard by the Court, or transmitted
to the Court, unless the said bond of $200. 00 is first filed with
the Clerk to the Commissioners, who shall have the right to de-
termine the sufficiency, or the financial sufficiency, of the sure-
ties or surety thereon. After the said period of fifteen days
from the date of the said final order, there shall be no right to
appeal. The said final order of the Commissioners making the
said ordinance effective shall not have to be published.

The Commissioners may pay the cost of the said improve-
ment, that is the part of the cost to be paid by the city, out of
any unappropriated money in the City Treasury at the time
the said improvement is made, or if no such money is avail-
able, then the Commissioners shall issue a certificate of indebt-
edness, for the purpose of raising the amount of money required
to be paid by the city for the said improvement, and any such
certificate of indebtedness, shall be a binding obligation upon
the municipal corporation of Cambridge as in the case of obli-
gations created by legally authorized bond issues of the said
corporation, the said Commissioners shall have the power to fix
the amount of the principal and the rate of interest of the said
certificate, the times when the principal and interest shall be