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said town, and to fix the dimensions thereof, which, in their judgment,
the public welfare and convenience may require; to provide for ascertain-
ing whether any and what amount in value of damage will be caused
thereby, for which the owner of any property through or over which such
road, street or alley may pass, ought to be compensated and paid; and for
assessing and laying, either generally, on the whole assessable property
in said corporate limits, or specially on the property of persons benefited
by such improvement, the whole or any patrt of the damages and expenses
which may be incurred in laying out., opening, extending, altering or
widening such road, street or alley; to provide, in case they shall deter-
mine to levy and assess the whole or any part of said damages and ex-
penses upon the owner of the property in said town specially benefited
by such improvements, for the apportionment among them of the amounts
of such 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 appointment of two or more commissioners, who when
sworn shall be authorized to value and assess said damages and benefits
upon and among said property holders accordingly, nmd to prescribe the
duties and the compensation of said commissioners; to provide for the
condemnation of all land and property so taken for public use1 in laying
out, opening, extending, altering or widening any road, street or alley as
aforesaid; to provide for the notice to be given in relation thereto for the
payment of the damages to the respective parties so awarded, and for the
collection and mode of payment of the benefits so assessed by said com-
missioners, which, when not paid on demand, may be recovered against
the several parties liable thereto by the said Mayor and 'Common Council
in any action allowed by law, and with power to pass all ordinances
necessary and proper to the exercise and enforcement of the powers
granted in this section; provided, that if any persons owning lands or
property taken or condemned for public uses under the powers vested in
the said Mayor and Common Council by this section may feel aggrieved
or be dissatisfied with the amounts of damages allowed them by said com-
missioners as aforesaid, when returned to and adopted by said Mayor
and Common Council, and desire a, jury trial to determine the same, they
shall have the right to appeal therefrom to the Circuit Court for Carroll
County within twenty days next thereafter.

P. L. L., 188S, Art. 7, sec. 82'. 1870, ch. 135.

182. They may pass all ordinances necessary for the good government
and general police of the town, and enforce the observance of such ordi-
nances by fines and penalties not exceeding twenty dollars for any one
offense.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 7, sec. 83. 1886, ch. 122.

183. Any justice of the peace in and for Carroll County, resident in
said town of Manchester, and if none so resident, then any such justice
of the peace resident in the sixth election district of said county, on com-