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sons in said village without the consent or permission of their
masters.

157. If any person shall refuse or neglect to pay any tax, fine
or forfeiture imposed or inflicted by said corporation, the com-
missioners may collect the same by distress, as county charges
are collected.

158. The said president and commissioners shall have power
to establish the limits, width and grades of the streets, lanes
and alleys of the said village, and to remove all obstructions
therefrom, and to open new streets, lanes and alleys therein,
and if they cannot agree with the owner of the land necessary
for that purpose, or if such owner be incompetent to contract,
then such land may be condemned in the manner herein pre-
scribed for condemning streets in the town of Elkton.

159. The said president and commissioners shall have full
power to provide for the payment of the damages and expenses
of opening, widening, laying out and grading streets, lanes and
alleys in said village, by levying and assessing the same gene-
rally upon the whole of the assessable property of said village,
or specially upon the assessable property of persons benefited
thereby.

160*. The president and commissioners of the village of Port
Deposit shall have full power to pave the streets of said village,
and may assess and levy the expenses thereof upon the tax
payers of said village generally, or may assess and levy the
same on the owners of the property fronting on the street to
be paved, ratably according to the number of feet front they
may respectively own on such streets; but when the property BO
fronting is unimproved and yields no rent or income to the
owner, the tax for such paving shall be levied generally upon
the tax payers of the village.

161*. The said president and commissioners may borrow, on
the faith of the corporation of said village, any sum of money
not exceeding five thousand dollars, and may issue bonds for the
same, bearing interest at not more than six per centum per
annum, and in such sums and payable at such times as the said
president and commissioners may direct, not exceeding twenty
years.