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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

services as may from time to time be by them

directed.

Power or dis-

SEC. 157. The said President and Commissioners,

tress

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-

sionera 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 hun-
dred and sixty of this article; and in vising and exer-

Proceed.

cising these powers, the President and Commission-

era and the said collector shall proceed in all respects

in the manner pointed out for county commis-

sioners and collectors of State and county taxes in

said article eighty-one.

SEC. 158. The President and Commissioners shall

Establish

have power to establish the grades of the streets,

grades

lanes and alleys of the said town, and to remove all

obstructions therefrom.

Open strcutb.

SEC. 159. They shall have power to open new

streets, lanes and alleys in said town, and to straight-

en and increase the width of and remove all ob-

structions from those already located or used; and

if they cannot agree with the owner of the land or

other property necessary for these purposes, or if

such owner be incompetent to contract, or shall re-

side out of Cecil county, then such land or other

Condemned

property may be condemned, for the purpose afore-

said, in the manner prescribed in sections seventy-six,

seventy-seven, seventy-eight, seventy-nine, eighty,

and eighty-one of this article ; and may assess and

levy the damages and expenses thereof generally,

upon the whole of the assessable property of said

town, or specially upon the assessable property of

persons benefited thereby.

Pave side-

SEC. 160. The said President and Commissioners

walks.

shall have full power to pave the side-walks of the