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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

thereby accrue to the owner or possessor of any ground or

improvements within or adjacent to the town for which each

owner or possessor ought to be compensated or ought to pay

as compensation and to provide for assessing and levying either

generally upon the whole assessable property of the town or

specially on the property of persons benefited, the whole or any

Damage and

part of the amount of damages and expense which they shall

expense.

ascertain will be incurred in locating, opening, extending,

widening, straightening or closing up the whole or any part

of any street, lane or alley in the town, and for the collection

thereof ; to provide for granting appeals to the Circuit Court

for Dorchester County from the decisions of any commis-

sioners whom they are empowered to appoint by ordinance to

ascertain the damage which will be caused or the benefits

which will accrue to the owners or possessors of grounds or

straightening or closing, in whole or in part, any street, lane

or alley within the town, and for securing to every such owner

or possessor the right, on application within a reasonable time,

Right of jury

to have decided by jury trial whether any damage, has been

trial on appli-
cation.

caused or any benefit has accrued to him, and to what amount,

to provide for collecting and paying over the amount of com-

pensation adjudged to each person or investing it, in the dis-

cretion of the corporation, in some stock or otherwise bearing

an interest not lower than four per cent, per annum for the

use of any such person who, because of their infancy, absence

from the city, or any other cause, may be prevented from re-

ceiving it, before any street, lane or alley, in whole or in part,

shall be so opened, extended, widened, straightened or closed

up; to provide for the collection of the amounts adjudged

to be paid by the owners or possessors who may be benefited

by the opening, widening, extension, straightening or closing

up, in whole or in part, of any street, lane or alley in the town,

and to enact and pass all ordinances from time to time which

shall be deemed necessary and proper to exercise the powers

and effect the objects above specified.

333B. The said Commissioners of Hurlock shall have full

Grading and

power to provide by ordinance for grading and paving or re-

paving side-
walks and

grading and repaving all sidewalks and gutters on any street,

gutters.

lane or alley in said town of Hurlock, or any part thereof,

and to compel the owners of the abutting property to pave and

grade or repave and regrade such sidewalks and gutters, and

in case the owners of the abutting property shall refuse or

fail, after thirty days' notice thereof served upon such abutting

property owner or posted upon said property when the same