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CHAPTER 146. AN ACT to add. additional sections to the Act of eighteen hundred and sixty-seven Chapter three hundred and seventy-seven, to be em- braced in the twenty-second Article of the Sup- plemental Code of Public Local Laws for Wi- comico County, sub-title, 'Salisbury,' to follow section ten of said Article.
SECTION 11. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said Town Commissioners of the town of Salisbury, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to straighten and widen old streets, and to open, lay out and grade new ones, whenever in their judgment the same may be necessary, or that the public con- venience and improvement may require it, and they or a majority of them shall have full power to pro- vide for the payment of damages and expenses in- curred by opening, widening or straightening the streets as aforesaid, by levying and assessing the same generally upon the whole of the assessable property of said town, or upon the property of persons benefitted thereby.	Power of com- missioners.
Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That the Commission- ers who shall hereafter be elected, as provided for in the third section of this Article, shall qualify before the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Wicomico County, and not as provided for in the fourth sec- tion of the said Article.	Elected.
Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That the Bailiffs appointed by the said Commissioners shall qualify before the Clerk of the Circuit Court of said county, whose bond shall be approved by the Com- missioners of Wicomico County, and not before a Justice of the Peace and the County Commission- ers, as provided for, in section seven of this Article.	Bailiffs,
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from and after the date of its passage. Approved March 20, 1868.	In force.