CECIL COUNTY. 1939

judgment of the President, or any of said Commissioners, or of the bailiff
of the town, the delay necessary to the issuing of a warrant will be dan-
gerous to the peace and quiet of the town, or the lives, limbs or property
of the citizens; and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxicated,
so as to render it unsafe to permit him to drive through the streets, they
shall provide for the removal of the horse and vehicle without the limits
of the town, or for the deposit thereof in some place of safety until the
offender shall be sober, and may subject the property so taken and de-
posited to payment of the costs of the proceedings, and of the keeping
of said property, until the same be released according to law.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 63. 1882. ch. 408.

63. The limits of the town shall be as now established; and the Com-
missioners shall have power to determine and establish the limits of the
town, and extend the same if they deem it expedient; and they shall file
with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Cecil County a description of the
boundaries established by them, which shall be deemed a record of the
boundaries of the town.

P. L. L., 1888. Art. 8, sec. 64. 1882, ch. 408.

64. They shall have power to establish the limits and width of the
streets of the town, with the consent of two-thirds of the owners of the
property through which they may pass; to open new streets, lanes and
alleys in the town, and to straighten and increase the width of and remove
all obstructions from those already located or used, and to provide for
the paving of the said streets and the sidewalks thereof, and for keeping
the same in repair, and for the proper drainage of said streets and alloys,
and for that purpose to construct drains and culverts when necessary.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 65. 1882. ch. 408.

65. They shall have power to provide for the payment of the damages
and expenses of opening, widening and laying out, grading, paving, drain-
ing and repairing of streets, lanes and alleys in the town, by levying and
assessing the same generally upon the whole of the assessable property
of the town, or specially upon the assessable property of persons bene-
fited thereby.

P. L. L., 1888,Art. 8, sec. 66. 1882, ch. 408.

66. If in opening or laying out any new street, lane or alley, or on
straightening, widening or draining any street, lane or alley in the town,
the Commissioners cannot agree with the owner of any land or property
wanted for the purpose, for the purchase, use and occupation of the same,
or if the owner be a feme covert, under age, non compos mentis, or out
of Cecil County, application may be made to any justice of the peace for
the county, who shall thereupon issue his warrant, under his hand and
seal, directed to the sheriff of the county, requiring him to summon a
jury of twenty inhabitants of the county, not related to the parties, or in