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breach of the by-laws or ordinances, to establish new avenues, streets and alleys, to open, widen, narrow, extend, stop up, or discontinue avenues, streets and alleys now laid out or used and such as may be established under the authority herein conferred, to lay and collect taxes for establishing,
opening, extending, narrowing, closing, repairing, and keeping in order such avenues, streets and alleys, and the roads leading from and through said town ; provided, that the said taxes shall be fairly laid, and shall not exceed twenty cents in every one hundred dollars worth of taxable pro- perty in any one year, which they may collect as county taxes are collected by any person or per- sons they may appoint ; and provided also, that when any avenues, streets or alleys shall be opened, widened or closed, the full value of all property taken and used for such avenue, street or alley, or damage to be sustained in closing the same in	Collect taxes.
whole or in part shall be assessed by the Commis- sioners, and the said full value so assessed first paid or tendered to the proprietor of said property, and that any proprietor who may feel aggrieved by such action of the Commissioners shall be enti- tled to an appeal at any time within thirty days after such tender to the Circuit Court of Baltimore County, and have such appeal heard at the first term of said Court thereafter, all by-laws and or- dinances to be signed by the Commissioners, and no compensation shall be made to said Commis- sioners for any services rendered by them as such.	Damage.
Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That any Justice of the Peace residing in the eighth Election District in Baltimore County, shall appoint by writing under his hand one Judge to hold the first elec- tion, who shall keep the polls open from two o'clock P. M. to six o'clock P. M., that the voting shall be by ballot, and the said Judge shall make returns under his hand to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Baltimore County to be retained by him.	Judges.
Sec. 5. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 30, 1868.	In force.