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1890, ch. 132, sec. 21. 1892, ch. 425, sec. 21.

406. The tax on real property of non-residents, if there be no personal
property thereon, may be collected out of the rents of such property by
attachment against the rights and credits of the owner.

1890, ch. 132, sec. 22. 1892, ch. 425, sec. 22.

407. The Mayor and Councilmen, shall have power to provide for lay-
ing out, opening, extending, widening, straightening or re-locating any
street, alley or highway, or parts thereof, within the town, which in their
opinion the , public welfare or convenience may require; to provide for
ascertaining whether any and what amount in value of damages will be
caused thereby; for which the owner or possessor of any property through
which such street or alley may pass, ought to be compensated, and for
assessing and levying either generally on the whole assessable property
within the town, or specially on the property of the person benefited, the
whole or any part of the damages and expenses which will be incurred
in laying out, opening, extending, widening, straightening or re-locating
such street, alley or highway; to provide for granting appeals to the
Circuit Court of Allegany County from the decisions of any commission-
ers or other persons appointed in virtue of any ordinance to ascertain the
damages occasioned by the opening, extending, widening, straightening
or re-locating of such street, alley or highway, and for securing to the
person injured, the right on application, within thirty days from the
return of the commissioners, to have decided by a jury trial, whether any,
and what damages he has sustained; to provide for collecting and paying
the compensation awarded to any person before any street, alley or high-
way shall be so opened, extended, widened, straightened or re-located, and
to enact all ordinances, from time to time necessary and proper to the
exercise of the powers granted in this section; provided, that before the
Mayor and Councilmen proceed to execute any of the powers vested in
them by this section, at least thirty days' notice of the application for
the passage of any such ordinance shall be given by advertisement by
hand bills or otherwise.

1890, ch. 132, sec. 28. 1892, ch. 425, sec. 23.

408. The Mayor and Councilmen may cause any highway, street or
alley or parts thereof, in said town to be graded, paved, guttered, side-
walked or otherwise improved and levy the expense thereof on the prop-
erty binding on said street, alley or highway agreeable to the extent of
such lots thereon, and collect the expense of paving, grading, guttering,
sidewalking or otherwise improving the same as directed in the next
succeeding section.

1890, ch. 132. sec. 24. 1892, ch. 425, sec. 24. 1914, ch. 42, sec. 24.
409. Whenever the Mayor and Councilmen shall levy any sum of
money on the inhabitants of, or owners of property in said town, for the
purpose of grading, paving, guttering, sidewalking or otherwise improv-