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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

be cancelled immediately after a sufficient amount of taxes
have been collected to do so; such payment, however, must
in no wise interfere with the satisfaction of interest-payments
on any bond that may have or hereafter be issued by the
town.
CODIFICATION OF ORDINANCES.

Codification of
ordinances.

Sec. 188. Said Mayor and Common Council may provide
rby ordinance for the codification of all ordinances which
have been or may hereafter be passed by it, and for the print-
ing of such codification thereof; and the printed copy thereof
issued by authority and under the sanction of said body shall
be legal evidence of the passage of said ordinance and the
contents thereof in any court of law or equity in this State.

LAYING OUT, OPENING AND EXTENDING STREETS.

Laying out,
opening and
extending
streets.

Sec. 189. The Mayor and Common Council shall have
power to provide for the laying out, opening, extending,
widening, straightening, or relocating of any street or alley,
or parts thereof within the city, which, in their opinion, the
public welfare or convenience may require to provide for
ascertaining whether any and what amount in value of
damage will be caused thereby, for which the owner or posses-
sor of any property through which said street or alleyway
may pass ought to be compensated by the appointment of
commissioners to assess the same; to provide for assessing and
levying, either generally on the whole, assessable property
within the city, or especially on the property of persons bene-
fited, the whole or any part of the damages and expenses
which will be incurred in laying out, opening, extending,
widening, straightening or relocating such street or alley, or
parts thereof, and grading the same; to provide for collecting
and paying the compensation awarded to any person before
any such street or alley, or part thereof, shall be laid out or
opened, extended, widened, straightened or relocated, and to
enact all ordinances, from time to time, necessary or proper
to the exercise of the powers granted in this section; pro-
vided that before they shall proceed to execute any of the
powers vested in them by this section, at least thirty days'
notice shall be given of any application which may be made
for the passage of any such ordinances by posters put up in
at least five of the most public places; and, provided further,
that upon the return of any assessment of damages or benefits,
or both, made under any ordinances passed under this section,
the clerk of said town shall cause a copy thereof to be pub-
lished once a week, for four successive weeks, in one news-