If any person owning or interested in lands through which a street or highway in said City is laid out, altered, or resurveyed by said City Council, is dissatisfied with the laying out, altering, or resurveying of said street or highway, or with the compensation awarded for his or her damages, or in case no damages are awarded him or her, he or she may have the same proceedings in respect thereto, as if such street or highway were laid out, altered, or resurveyed in any town in this State; and such proceedings shall be conducted in the same manner and shall have the same effect as provided by law in case a highway is laid out, altered, or resurveyed in any town in this State; except that no person by reason of being a resident or taxpayer in said City shall be disqualified to act in such proceedings as a commissioner appointed by the county court.