300 ARTICLE 1A.

and it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Water and Electric Light
to see that the ordinances so passed are properly carried out and enforced-

STREETS.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 74.

74. The Mayor and City Council shall have power to provide for the
laying out, opening, extending, widening, straightening, relocating or
closing of any street or alley, or parts thereof, within the city, which, in
their opinion, the public welfare or convenience may require; to provide
for ascertaining whether any and what amount in value of damage will
be caused thereby, for which the owner or possessor of any property
through which said street or alley-way may pass, ought to be compen-
sated, by the appointment of commissioners to assess the same; to pro-
vide for assessing and levying either generally on the whole assessable
property within the city or specially on the property of persons benefited,
the whole or any part of the damages and expenses which will be incurred
in laying out, opening, extending, widening, straightening, re-locating or
closing such street or alley, or parts thereof, and grading the same; to
provide for collecting and paying the compensation awarded to any person
before any such street or alley, or part thereof, shall be laid out, opened,
extended, widened, straightened, relocated or closed, to enact all ordi-
nances from time to time necessary or proper to the exercise of the pow-
ers granted in this section, provided that before they shall proceed to
execute any of the powers vested in them by this section, at least thirty
days' notice shall be given of any application which may be made for
the passage of any such ordinance, by advertisement in at least two news-
papers printed in said city; and by a personal notice in writing served
twenty days before upon each property holder to be affected by the passage
of the proposed ordinance, giving notice of the time and place named for
the passing of said ordinance, provided said parties are residents of
Allegany County, and provided further that upon the return of any
assessment of damages or benefits or both, made under any ordinance
passed under this section, the clerk of said city shall cause a copy thereof
to be published once a week for four successive weeks in two newspapers
of opposite political faith printed in said city; and provided further that
whenever said Mayor and City Council open, lay out, extend, widen,
straighten or relocate any street or alley, or any part or parts thereof,
they shall establish the grade thereof, and such grade when so established
shall be indicated upon a plat, and a description thereof shall be recorded
in the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Allegany County: and
when the Mayor and City Council deem it proper to do so they shall have
the said streets or alleys graded.

1922, ch. 96, sec. 75.

75. Any person who shall feel aggrieved by the decision of the Commis-
sioners appointed to lay out or close such streets, as to the amount of dam-