926 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [CH. 479

It shall appoint three commissioners, whose duty it shall be
to ascertain whether any and what amount in value of damage
will be caused thereby, for which the owner or possessor of
any property affected by said condemnation ought to be com-
pensated; provided that it shall serve upon the owner or pos-
sessor of said property, if said owner or possessor is a resident
of the City of Cumberland or Allegany County, actually resid-
ing therein, a notice warning said owner or possessor that
said commissioners will proceed upon a certain day to be
named therein, which said day shall not be less than fifteen
days after the date of said notice, to hear all persons who may
be interested therein, and view the premises and fix the amount
of compensation to which said owner or possessor may be en-
titled. And if said owner or possessor shall be absent from
or a non-resident of the City of Cumberland, then like notice
shall be given by posting the same upon the premises to be
affected or by registered mail, or by publication in two daily
newspapers published in the City of Cumberland, once a week
for three consecutive weeks. Said commissioners shall meet
agreeable to the terms of said notice, and shall hear the in-
terested parties, and shall fix the compensation, and shall re-
turn a report of their proceedings, within fifteen clays there-
after, to the Mayor and City Council, and said report shall
include a statement of the name of the owner or possessor of
any property viewed, and the amount of compensation allowed,
and upon the payment of the compensation allowed, and not
before, the said Mayor and City Council shall have a right
to proceed to carry on the work contemplated by such con-
demnation.

The right to condemn as herein authorized shall include
the right to condemn property of persons non compos mentis,
infants, or persons under any other legal disability to contract,
and shall include property in the hands of Trustees or prop-
erty then being administered by any Court or public officer
of this State.

Any person or other owner who shall feel aggrieved by the
decision of the commissioners appointed, as to the amount of
damage allowed him, may appeal therefrom, at any time within
ten days after said commissioners shall have made their re-
turn, to the Circuit Court of Allegany County, which said
appeal shall be taken by filing written notice thereof with the
Clerk of said City Council who thereupon, without unneces-
sary delay, shall transmit to said Circuit Court a record of the