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proper; and if any person shall feel aggrieved by the deter-
mination of the said Commissioners in ratifying or rejecting
said award or return, or in the amount of compensation
awarded, benefits assessed or in any matter relating to the
same, he may appeal within ten days of said ratification to
the Circuit Court for Caroline County, and either party may
be entitled to a trial by the Court or jury and the judgment
of the said Court or jury shall be final among the parties
to such appeal; provided, that the person taking such appeal
shall within five days apply to said Commissioners for the
same in writing, and within five days thereof shall cause to
be delivered to the Clerk of the Circuit Court aforesaid a
copy of the said award filed with the said Commissioners,
together with a copy of the order of said' Commissioners,
ratifying or rejecting the same, and all other papers relating
thereto; and the said corporation shall be liable for and
tender the damages thus assessed and determined to the
persons entitled, or if rejected to hold the same to his cred-
itors for his use; and the said Commissioners shall have full
power to assess and levy either generally on the whole
assessable property of said town, or especially upon the prop-
erty of persons so assessed to be benefited thereby, the whole
or any part of the amount of damages and expenses that
they shall ascertain will be incurred in locating, opening,
extending, widening, straightening or closing up the whole
or any part of any street, lane or alley, or sidewalk in said
town, and to collect the same in the manner hereinbefore pro-
vided for the collection of general tax levy. The Commis-
sioners shall have the right to pass zoning ordinances, build-
ing and building restriction ordinances, or other ordinances
relating to the general welfare of the town and its inhabit-
ants. The Commissioners of Goldsboro shall have the right
to abate any public nuisance, public danger, menace to public
health, morality or safety, at the expense of the property
owner, wherein the same is located, and if the aforesaid
public nuisance, damages, or menace is not remedied within
twenty days after written notice by the said Commissioners
to the property owner, then the said Commissioners may
proceed to remedy the same, by tearing down buildings or
otherwise, and the whole expense of the same shall be a lien
against the property of the persons owning the said land,
and collectible as other town taxes and indebtedness are
collectible.

266. The expense and cost of paving, repairing or other-
wise improving the sidewalks in said town incurred by said
Commissioners under their ordinances, may be charged and
recovered by them in the name of the corporation from the
owner or owners of the property abutting thereon in, propor-
tion to the amount expended abutting on said property, by

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