568
Attend meet-
ings.
Powers of
distress and
sale.
How to pro-
ceed.
Establish
grades.
Open new
streets, &c,
Condemn
property.
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LAWS OF MARYLAND.
lectors of county taxes; but nothing herein contained
shall prevent the said President and Commissioners
from appointing the same person to be both bailiff,.
constable and collector.
- 156. The said. bailiff and the said collector shall
attend the meetings of the commission era whenever
they shall be required, and shall perform such ser-
vices as may from time to time be by them directed.
157. The said President and Commissioners, and
the collector by them appointed for the collection of
taxes, shall have all the powers of distress and sale of
real and personal property given to County Com-
missioners and collectors of State and county taxes
by article eighty-one of the Code of Public General
Laws of Maryland, for the collection of State and
county taxes, to be by said President and Commis-
sioners and said collector, used and exercised in col-
lecting and enforcing payment of all taxes, whether
the same be levied for the ordinary purposes of said
town, under section one hundred and fifty-two, or
for the purpose of paving, under section one hundred
and sixty of this article; and in using and exercising these powers the President and Commissioners and'
the said collector shall proceed, in all respects, in the
manner pointed out for County Commissioners and!
collectors of State and county taxes in said article
eighty-one.
158. The said President and Commissioners shall
have power to establish the grades of the streets,
lanes and alleys of the said town, and to remove all
obstructions therefrom.
159. They shall have power to open new streets,
lanes and alleys in said town, and to straighten and'
increase the width of and remove all obstructions
from those already located or used, and if they can-
not agree with the owner of the land or other prop-
erty necessary for these purposes, or if such owner
be incompetent to contract, or shall reside out of
Cecil county, then such land or other property may
be condemned for the purpose aforesaid in the man-
ner prescribed in sections seventy-six, seventy-seven,
seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty, and eighty-one
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