ART. 1.] ALLEOANY COUNTY. 19

42. The mayor and councilmen shall have power to provide
for laying out, opening and extending any street or alley 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 possessor of any property through which such
street or alley may pass, ought to be compensated, and for as-
sessing and levying either generally on the whole assessable
property within the city or specially on the property of persons
benefited, the whole or any part of the damages and expenses
which will be incurred in laying out or extending such street or
alley; for granting appeals to the Circuit Court for Allegany
county from the decisions of any commissioners or other persons
appointed in virtue of any ordinance to ascertain the damage
occasioned by the opening or extending of such street or alley,
and for securing to the person injured the right, on application
within thirty days from the return of the report of the com-
missioners, to have decided by a jury trial whether any and
what damage he has sustained; to provide for collecting and
paying the compensation awarded to any person before any
street or alley shall be so opened or extended, and to enact all
ordinances from time to time necessary and proper to the exer-
cise of the powers granted in this section; Provided, that before
the mayor and councilmen 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 ordinance, by advertisement, in at least two news-
papers printed in said city.

43. Upon the return of any assessment made under any ordi-
nance passed under the preceding section, the clerk of said city
shall cause a copy thereof to be published for thirty days in at
least two newspapers, printed in said city.

44. The mayor and councilmen may, when requested in writ-
ing by the owners of a majority of the front feet of the property
On any street or alley or parts thereof in said city, cause the
same to be graded, paved or otherwise improved, and levy the
expenses thereof on the property binding on said street or alley,
agreeably to the extent of such lots thereon, and collect the
expense of paving, grading, or otherwise improving the same,
as directed in the next succeeding section.