2620 ARTICLE 11.

and immorality, to provide for the maintenance of order and quiet around
and upon church properties, to punish and fine breaches of the peace, and
to preserve the peace, order and quiet of the town, to provide for the
assessment of all property within the taxable limits of the town or to
adopt and use the assessments of said property as made by the assessors
for Frederick County as a basis for taxation, and to levy and collect taxes
thereon necessary to carry into effect the ordinances of the town, said
tax not to exceed fifty cents on the one hundred dollars in any year, to
provide for the licensing of peddlers, hucksters and any persons trading
or selling any produce, livestock or merchandise on the streets of said
town, and to tax all telephone, telegraph and railroad poles fifty cents per
annum, and to pass all ordinances necessary for the good government of
the town.

1924, ch. 120, sec. 9B.

622 The Burgess and Council of Myersville are hereby authorized and
empowered whenever, in their judgment, the public interests or conven-
ience require it, to provide by ordinance for the grading, paving, curbing
and sewering, or drainage or drain, or for the grading, or paving, or
curbing, draining or sewering, and for the regrading, repaving, recurb-
ing, resewering, or for the regrading, repaving, or recurbing or resewering
in such manner, at such time and with such material as they shall see
fit, of any street or streets, lane or lanes, alley or alleys, or any portion
thereof, in the town of Myersville, now condemned, ceded, opened as a
public highway, or which may be hereafter condemned, ceded, opened,
widened, straightened or altered according to the laws and ordinances
relating to the same; and also for assessing the costs of any such work in
whole or in part upon the property binding upon such street or streets,
lane or lanes, roads, alley or alleys, or part thereof, according to such
rule or basis as they may determine, and for collecting said assessment
as other town taxes are collected, or in such manner as may be prescribed
by ordinance of the Burgess and Council of Myersville, either before or
after the work shall have been done; provided that before the passage
by the Burgess and Council of any ordinance requiring the whole or any
portion of the costs to be assessed upon the property, ten days' notice shall
be given by the Burgess in some newspaper published in or nearest said
town in Frederick County, notifying all persons interested to appear,
and giving them the opportunity to "be heard before the Burgess and
Council at such time as shall be provided in said notice; and the Burgess
and Council of Myersville are hereby authorized and empowered to pro-
vide by ordinance for the appointment of a Committee of the Burgess
and Council, or such other person or persons as they shall appoint, not
exceeding three, who shall act as Councilman or Councilmen, to deter-
mine the amount of the assessment to be made upon any such property
under the provisions of this Act; and the ordinance or ordinances passed
in pursuance hereof, and after the Councilman or Councilmen, so ap-
pointed shall have completed their apportionment of the expenses to be