The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1874-05-16


district or districts respectively in such pro
portion as they may deem just and proper, anC
shall furnish to the County Commissioners {
report of such assessment. And if any person
or persons, body corporate or district, shall fee
aggrieved by the award, report, return or pro
ceedings of said Board of Examiners, he, she
they or it shall, within thirty days after said re-
port is fled in the office of said Board of Coun
ty Commissioners file with said Commission
ers, his, her, their, or its objection in writing
and sail County Commissioners shall after five
days notice to each side interested, or the attor
neys thereof, or as soon thereafter as practical
BILE, proceed to consider the award, return, re-
port, plat and proceedings of said Examiners
and all the proceedings in said case, and the
said County Commissioners may ratify and con
Arm, reject, reverse, alter, amend or correct
award, return report, plat and proceedings Of
said Examiners and all the proceedings in said
case, or may in their discretion send back to
said Examiners, or to a new Board of Examin-
ers, in case they deem it advisable, the award
return, report, plat and proceedings OF said Ex-
aminers for alteration, correction or amend
ment, and any person interested in said pro.
ceedngs may appeal from the final order OF
ratification or rejection of the report of said
Board of Examiners by the County Commits
sioners Of said county to the Circuit Court there
of; provided, said appeal is taken within thir-
ty days from che passage of said final order of
ratification or rejection, and provided further
that this costs of the record in case of appeal
shall be. paid or rendered to the Treasurer OF
-said county or to the Clerk of the County Com
missioners within thirty days from the date Of
said appeal, and in case the costs of said ap-
peal are not paid or rendered as aforesaid with
in the period aforesaid, it shall be lawful for
said County Commissioners to proceed to act in
the premises as if no such appeal had been takn,
and in case any appeal is taken as aforesaid to
the Circuit Court for said county and motion is
filed to quash the proceedings in said case, an y
of the proceedings may be amended as to mat
ters of form, so that the case may be tried on
its real merits and the purposes OF justice sub
served, or the Court may in its discretion re-
mand said case to said County Commissioners
for alteration, correction or amendments, and
when final judgment is entered by the Circuit
Court in any case said Court may determine
whether the costs shall be paid by the appel
liant or appellee and such amendment may be
made at any time before the jury retire TO make
up their verdict, in case of jury trial and in
cases of trial before the Court at any tire be-
fore judgment is entered.
SEC. II. And be 1t enacted, That when no
objection shall have been filed within the time
herenbefore designated, or if objection shall
havo been filed, and the road petitioned for
confirmed by the County commissioners of said
county, or il in case of appeal, the order OF the
County Commissioners is affirmed by the Cir
cult Court for said county, the County Commits
sioners shall record or cause to be recorded such
roads, public road of Baltimore county and
the award, if for damages, shall be paid BY said
County Commissioners, to the person, or per
sons, or body corporate, entitled to receive the
same, within ninety days from the ratification
of said award and report. And the award, if
for benefits, shall be considered tax and lien
upon the property assessed, and shall be paid
to the County Com missioners, or the Treasurer
of said county upon the order of said Commits
soners, within sixty days from the time the
award and report are finally ratified and con-
6rmed as aforesaid, provided, thirty days notice
is given to the owner, or owners of the property
taken for such road, or to his, her, or its agent
or attorney, or left upon the premises in case
the owner is unknown, and said sum shall be
applied to the purpose of paying the damages,
and for the construction of said road. When
ever any person, or persons, shall desire to i'm
prove any road TO an extent beyond that con-
tenn plated by the Board of Examiners, they
may make application to the County Commits
sioners, who shall issue commission to three
disinterested tax payers OF said county direct
ing them to meet upon the premises, and ex-
anime the location and the premises, set forth
in said application, and if they shall judge
that the public interest will be promot ID thore-
by, they shall direct the County CommlssIon-
ers to pay towards such i'm provemcntan amount
not exceeding one hundred dollars per mile, to
be paid upon completion of said improvements !;
provided, however, that said applicants sub
scribe amount double that to be paid by the
County Commissioners all the work of said
shall be under the direction and
control of the supervisors whenever any doubt
may exist as to the proper location or width of
any road, the supervisors may cause the same
to be surveyed, and in their discretion make
such alteration as the conveniences of the pub
lie may require, and any person feeling az
grieved at their action, shall have right of APP
peal as hereinbefore provided; when any new
road is located, old road altered, or any road
surveyed, said roads shall be not less than thlr
ty feet in width, and it shall be the duty of the
supervisors to provide suitable bounding stones
and have them securely planted at such points
as they may deem necessary. The supervisors
shall receive for their services two dollars and
fifty cents for each day engaged in any of the
duties of their office, which shall be paid out of
the special road fund of their respective dis
tricts; and they are hereby authorized to incur
any expense necessary for the proper work OF
the roads, or the duties of their office; Provided,
however, that no accounts shall be paid unless
by the chairman, and at least one OF
the other supervisors, and approved by Che
County Commissioners and provided further,
that no supervisor shall receive any pay or per
diem for his services in experimenting the
work of hands upon the roads of said county,
unless he shall make affidavit that he had
for every day so charged, for his services as
aforesaid, at least six able bodied hands not
under eighteen years of age, in his employment
upon said roads, and at least one horse and cart,
and shall also make affidavit that he was actu
ally and bona fde employed in experimenting
said hands during the time so charged and
provided further, that the County Commissioners
of said county shall in no case pay any Supervi
sor any money on account of his own per diem
or the wages of any of his hands or any of his
expenditures whatever unless he shall also
make affidavit that he has posted in two of the
most public places in his sub road district a
copy of the detailed account presented to the
said Commissioners for payment, and any per-
son dcfacing or tearing down said copy within
thirty days after the same shall have been post
ed shall be liable to fine Of not less than five
nor more than twenty-five dollars and costs to
be collected as small fines are usually collected
one-half to go to the informer and the other
half to go to the road fund of the county. The
building and repairs of all bridges in Haltimol c
county shall be under the control OF TIE County
Commissioners and whenever twenty or more
taxable inhabitants of Baltimore county shall
desire the building or rebuilding Of ally bridge,
they may make application to the County Com
missioners and the County Commissioners shall
issue a commission to three disinterested tax
payers of said county directing them to meet
on the premises named in said application, at
a stated time, and examine and determine if
the public convenience requires said bridge and
the probable cost thereof and they shall report
their opinion in writing to the County Commits
sioners, and if the County Commissioners shall
be OF opinion that such application ought to be
granted, they shall advertise in one or more
newspapers published in Baltimore county
setting forth the place where said bridge is to be
built, with full specifications, of the plan and
materials, and that sealed proposals for build
ing said bridge will be received until day
named in said advertisement; on the day
named in said advertisement the proposals shall
be opened, and the contract awarded to the
lowest responsible bidder, who, in the opinion
of the County Commissioners, shall be qualified
to build said bridge. Contractors shall give
bond double the amount of the contract, fol
the faithful performance of said contract, and
when such bridge shall be completed to the sat
isfaction of the County Commissioners, they
shall pay to the contractor the last installmen
due thereon, and shall accept the bridge for the
use Of the public.
SEC IS. And be 1t further enacted, That a
least three fourths of all sums of money to bC
expended in each district of said county in the
repairs of roads in any of said districts shall
be expended between the first day of A ril and
the first day of October in each and every year
SEC. 10. And be 1t enacted, That the RoaC
Supervisors of the several road districts are
harahv directed tn mt nm and maintain suita