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Decision of quarter sessions on appeal to be final.
Costs.
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23. The court before which any such appeal shall be brought as aforesaid is hereby empowered and required to hear and determine the matter of such appeal as stated in such notice of appeal, but not any other cause or matter of appeal, and to hear all parties who may be, directly or indirectly, interested in the cause of such appeal, and to make such order therein as to such court shall seem fit, and to award such costs to the party appealing or appealed against, or to any other party who shall be brought before the said court on the hearing of such appeal, whether the appellant shall prosecute such appeal or not, or shall appear at the hearing or not, as the said court shall think proper; and upon the hearing of any such appeal the said last-mentioned lists of valuation, signed by the Commissioner of Valuation, shall be deemed to be primâ facie evidence of the correctness of the valuations contained therein, till the contrary be shown to the court; and the determination of the said court in or concerning the premises shall be conclusive and binding on all parties to all intents and purposes whatsoever: Provided always, that if the costs of such appeal shall be awarded against the Commissioner of Valuation, such costs, when paid by such commissioner, together with the necessary costs incurred by such commissioner in defending such appeal, shall be deemed to be and charged as part of the expences of the valuation
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