JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR,

prohibit and restrain gambling and games of chance of all
kinds; to regulate and provide for a tax on dogs; to provide
for and prevent the tunning at large of all horses, cattle, hogs,
geese, chickens and other fowl upon the streets or within the
limits of said town ; to provide by ordinance for condemning,
laying out, opening, extending and making new streets or
alleys, and for altering, straightening, widening, grading,
improving or closing up in whole or in part any existing
street or alley, and for removing trees, posts and other obstruc-

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tions, and for laying out public squares, drains, water-courses,
and all benefits or damages done, suffered or incurred by the
laying out, opening and making of new streets or alleys, or
by altering, straightening, widening, grading, improving or
closing up, in whole or in part, any existing street or alley,
or laying out public squares, drains or water-courses, shall be
determined and assessed by three disinterested persons, resi-
dents of said town, appointed by the Board of Commis-
sioners, who shall within ten days after the notification
of their appointment take an oath before a justice of the
peace of Wicomico County, that they will faithfully and
fairly, without partiality or prejudice, value and assess the
loss and damage to be suffered and incurred by any person
interested in the said property, over, through, and by which
the said street, alley, square, drain or water-way is to be
opened, closed, extended, widened, graded or improved, and
also to estimate the benefits that may accrue therefrom to
any such property over, through, and by which the said
street, alley, square, drain or water-way is to be opened,
closed, extended, widened, graded or improved, or any prop-
erty adjacent thereto, or any other property injured or
benefited by said street, alley, square, drain or water-way;
they shall give at least ten days' notice in three public places
in the corporate limits of their purpose to lay out, open,
extend, close up, widen, straighten, grade or improve the
street or alley, square, drain or water-way, so desired to be
laid out, opened, extended, closed up, widened, straightened,
graded or improved, and of the day, hour and place of meet-
ing for said purpose, and they shall meet at the time and place
mentioned in the notices given by them, and proceed to exer-
cise the powers and perform the duty assigned to and required
of them, and to ascertain whether any and what amount, in

Laying out and
opening
streets, etc.

value of damages, will be caused thereby, for which the
owner or occupant of any right or interest, claimed in any
ground or improvement, ought to be compensated, over and
above the amount in value of benefit which will thereby

Com. pensation
for damages
in opening
streets.