1572 ARTICLE 6.

lay out, extend, widen, grade or straighten any street, alley, or highway or
any square, waterway or drain, notwithstanding the decision of said court;
but in case of refusal so to do they shall be liable for all costs incurred, and
shall pay the same, all benefits assessed by virtue of the above provisions
shall be liens on the respective lots or parcels of ground on which they are
assessed from the time of the final ratification of the aforesaid return, and
shall be collected as taxes are collected, or may be collected by action at
'law. On appeal the court or jury may alter the award so returned,
whether of damages or benefits, and award costs in its discretion. On final
ratification of any report of the assessors appointed under the provisions
of this section, the secretary to the Commissioners shall at once record in
a book kept for that purpose the said return, plat and all proceedings con-
nected therewith. And if for any reason the person to whom damages are
awarded refuses to receive the damages assessed, or from infancy or any
other cause are prevented from receiving and receipting for same, the dam-
ages so assessed shall be deposited in some bank of Caroline County, pay-
ing interest on deposits, if any, to the credit of the person entitled to such
damages, and thereupon the Commissioners of Denton, may proceed in the
same way as if said damages had been paid to the person or persons them-
selves.

1916, ch. 692, sec. 95A.

149. The Commissioners of Denton are hereby authorized and em-
powered, whenever in their judgment the public interests and conveniences
require it, to pass ordinances for the improvement of the public streets in
said town, to establish grades for said streets, to prescribe the material of
which said streets shall be built or improved and to assess the cost and
expense thereof a sum not to exceed fifty (50) cents per lineal foot upon
the owner or owners of the abutting property, whether same be owned by
an individual, firm, corporation or by Caroline County, which said cost
and expense as assessed by said Commissioners of Denton shall be due and
payable within ten days after said streets shall have been completed,
built or improved along said abutting property and said costs and expense
as assessed aforesaid shall be a lien upon said abutting property, and in-
terest shall be chargeable on said assessment from the time same is due and
payable, and all assessments that are not paid when due aforesaid shall be
collectible by an action at law.

1914, ch. 730, sec. 96.

150. All able-bodied male citizens residing in the town of Denton,
twenty-one years of age and over, shall be compelled to labor one day of
ten hours in every year on the public streets of said town; provided, how-
ever, no person shall be required to labor as aforesaid who may furnish a
substitute or pay to the bailiff the sum of one dollar in lieu of said labor,
and any person who shall refuse to obey the summons of the bailiff for
labor on the public streets shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon complaint made by the bailiff, shall be arrested and taken before a
Justice of the Peace for Caroline County, upon a warrant to be issued by