CARROLL COUNTY. 1741

said damages and expenses upon the owners of the property in the town
specially benefited by such improvements for the apportionment among
them of the amount of said damages and expenses so determined, to be
levied upon them in due proportion to the amount of benefits by them
respectively received. To provide for the condemnation of all land and
property so taken for public use, in opening, extending or widening any
street or alley as aforesaid, for the notice to be given in relation thereto,
for the payment of the damages so awarded, and for the collection and
mode of payment under any action allowed by law, for the benefits so
determined to be assessed; and to pass all ordinances necessary and proper
to the exercise and enforcement of the powers granted in this section;
provided, that no land or property shall be taken under the powers given
in this section, without the payment or tender of just compensation there-
for to the party entitled to such compensation, as agreed on with the
owners of such property or awarded by a jury summoned for the purpose
by the sheriff of Carroll County, in the modo and at the time to be pre-
scribed by said Mayor and Council.

1894, ch. 283, sec. 54A. 1920, ch. 423, sec. 54A.

78. They shall have the power to grade and make the sidewalks of
the streets and alleys within the corporate limits, and to regulate the width
thereof; to lay flagstones or other crossings across said streets and alleys
whenever necessary; to provide of what material the said sidewalks and
curbs of said streets and alleys shall he made and how the same shall be
done and kept in repair and remade from time to time; they may require
the owners of the lots of ground in front of which said grading and mak-
ing, renewing and repairing of said sidewalks are to be done, to do the same
at their own expense; and if any owner of a lot shall neglect to grade and.
make the sidewalks in front of his, her or its lot or premises, or repair the
same when necessary, for the space of two months, after notice in writing
shall have been given such owners by the Mayor or Town Clerk, requiring
the same to be done, the Mayor and Council shall cause the same to be
done at the expense of the owner of the said lot, which expense shall be a
lieu on said lot of ground until paid, and may be recovered from said
owners by the Mayor and Council as other debts of like amounts are recov-
ered in this State by law, or such lien may be enforced by sale in a manner
to be prescribed by ordinance; they may also grade and make, in such
manner and with such material and surfacing as they may consider best,
any of the streets and thoroughfares of the towu and by general ordi-
nance require the owners of the lots of ground fronting on the street or
thoroughfare so graded or made as aforesaid, to pay two-thirds (2-3) of the
expense incurred in grading and making such streets or thoroughfares in
proportion to the front feet of said lots of such owners respectively on said
streets or thoroughfares and to be payable when such work is finished, and
such proportion of such expense as should be borne by each respective
owner according to his frontage as aforesaid shall be and remain a lien on
the such respective lots until paid; and whenever payment thereof is re-