1670 ARTICLE 6.

the day of meeting, proceed to ascertain what amount the contemplated
improvement will cost, and they shall have power to provide for the pay-
ment of the costs aforesaid by levying and assessing the same generally
upon the whole of the assessable property of said town, or specially upon
the assessable value of the property benefited thereby and abutting on
said street, or in their discretion partly upon the property benefited and
abutting upon said street, and the balance upon the whole of the assessable
property of said town, and the said Commissioners! shall have the power
to ascertain and determine what amount of benefits will thereby accrue
to any lot or parcel of ground adjacent to said street, or the owner thereof,
and what amount said lot or the owner thereof ought to pay, and they shall
on the day fixed by said ordinance and within three days inclusive of said
meeting so ascertain and determine and their decision in writing shall be
filed with the secretary, and shall be by him recorded in a book kept f or
that purpose, and any proprietor who 'shall feel himself aggrieved by any
such action of the Commissioners, shall be entitled to an appeal at any
time within thirty days after the decision of the Commissioners shall be
filed as aforesaid, to the Circuit Court for Caroline County, and such
appeal shall be heard and determined as appeals from justices of the peace
are now heard; and all benefits so assessed against any lot or parcel of
ground or the owner or occupant thereof, shall be a lien against said lot
or parcel of ground from the time said Commissioners shall finally order
the work contemplated to be begun, and it shall be the duty of the said
Commissioners to certify under the seal of the corporation to the Treas-
urer the amount of benefits so assessed who shall forthwith enter the same
on his books against the property so assessed, and the said benefits shall
be collected as the Town taxes are now collected, provided that no prop-
erty shall be sold for the payment of benefits until after the expiration of
six months from the date of the passage of the ordinance by said Com-
missioners.

1914, ch. 833, sec. 16.

441. The Commissioners shall have full power and authority to regu-
late and provide for the issuing of lisenses or permits for all hawking,
peddling and vending of patents -and of goods, wares and merchandise of
every description, upon the streets, lanes, alleys or highways of said town,
to issue licenses or permits to all itinerant peddlers who may go from
house to house to vend or sell any goods, wares or merchandise; to issue
licenses to any and all persons entering into or beginning any transient
business in said town for the sale or purchase of any goods, wares or
merchandise, to regulate and provide for the issuing of licenses to all
traveling persons or peddlers, who dispense medicines or medical advice;
to regulate and license pawnbrokers, junk dealers, fire sales and auction
sales; to regulate and license all nine or ten pin alleys, bowling alleys,
skating rinks, moving picture shows and all shows and exhibitions of
every kind; to regulate the erection of poles and use thereof by telephone,
telegraph, electric light or other companies; to license all billiard, pool