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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

"Queenstown" and to follow Section 218G of said Article, and

to be known as 218H, 218J, 218K, 218L, 218M, 218N, 218P,

218Q? 218R, 218S, 218T, 218U and 218V.

2i8H. Any and every owner of real estate in Queenstown

Abutting prop-
erty owners.

abutting or bordering on a public highway within the cor-

porate limits of said town shall, after having had sixty days'

notice by the Commissioners of Queenstown so to do, erect

and build sidewalks adjoining their said real estate; provided,

the Commissioners of Queenstown, at the time of notifying said

owners of real estate that they must erect sidewalks, also

notify said property owners of the width that said sidewalk must

be, and also of the material of which said sidewalk must be

built.

218J. The width of said sidewalks and the material of which

Sidewalks;

they must be erected and built shall be within the discretion

width of same
and material

and judgment of said Commissioners; provided, that said

to be used.

Commissioners shall not require the owner of any real estate

to erect any sidewalk of any other material than oyster shells,

ashes, cinders or planks, and no one shall be required to build

or erect any sidewalk of a greater width than four feet.

218K. Should any person or persons owning real estate in

Failure to

Queenstown fail, after being notified as provided in Section

comply with
law.

218H, to erect and build such sidewalk as may be designated

by the said Commissioners of Queenstown, then the said Com-

missioners of Queenstown may forthwith proceed to have

erected and built such sidewalk as they had notified said per-

son or persons to erect and build ; such sidewalk to be erected

and built as economically as may be, and the cost and expense

of said sidewalk when completed to be taxed by the said Com-

missioners against the property abutting on it, and whose

owner had been notified to erect and build said sidewalk; the

amount of the cost and expense of erecting and building said

sidewalk to be collected as other taxes are collected by the

Commissioners of Queenstown ; and the cost and expense of

building and erecting said sidewalk shall be a lien against

said property ; provided, nothing herein contained shall be any

bar to or preclude said Commissioners from collecting from the

Cost and ex-

owner of said real estate the amount of the cost and expenses

penses.

of erecting and building said sidewalk as ordinary simple con-

tract debts are collected.

218L. Any person or persons or body corporate holding real

Deemed an

estate in fee simple, for life, per outer vie or for any number

owner of
real estate.

of years not less than fifteen, although the same may be sub-

ject to a lease or term of shorter duration, shall be deemed