3230 ARTICLE 15.

bo open and establish new streets, lanes and alleys, and straighten and
widen old streets, lanes and alleys, and to provide for the payment of
damages and expenses incurred for opening and widening or straighten-
ing, grading, paving and repairing the streets, lanes and alleys as afore-
said, by laying and assessing the same generally upon the whole of the
assessable property of the town over and above the assessment provided
for in Section 274 of this sub-title, or upon the property of person or per-
sons to be benefited thereby, and to be collected as provided for collection
of taxes in Section 274 of this sub-title.

1906, ch. 95, sec. 160A.

270. The commissioners may contract and agree with the owner of
property, through or over which a street is to be extended, widened or
opened, for the amount of damages sustained by or advantages accruing to
such owner, and may provide for the adjustment and payment of same.

1906, ch. 95, sec. 160B.

271. Whenever said commissioners and the owner of any such property
cannot so agree, then said commissioners and such owner shall each select
one disinterested citizen of the county, who, if they cannot agree, shall
call in a third citizen of the county, and they shall visit the property to be
affected by the proposed street and assess the damages and advantages
which may accrue to such property or the owner thereof, and they shall
make their award in writing to said commissioners and to such owner;
and either party may appeal from such award to the Circuit Court for
Kent County; provided, the opposite party be notified of such appeal
within thirty days from the date of the award.

1906, ch. 95, sec. 160C.

272. Whenever any owner of such property refuses or declines to act
under the preceding section, or is unknown or inaccessible to said commis-
sioners, or incompetent to contract, said commissioners may proceed as
directed in the preceding section after giving public notice of their inten-
tion by advertisement in some newspaper published in Kent county, for
three successive weeks, before commencing such opening, widening or ex-
tension, except that the County Commissioners shall appoint one of the
parties to estimate and award said damages and advantages in the place
of the owner of the property, and from such award appeals may be taken,
as provided for in the preceding section.

1890, ch. 386, sec. 161. 1906, ch. 95, sec. 161.

273. The justices of the peace resident in said town are hereby declared
to be conservators of the peace of said town, and it shall be their duty to
order the arrest of the person or persons found breaking the peace, dis-
turbing the quiet or order of said town, or violating any of the ordinances
made by the commissioners for securing the safety, health, property or
lives of the inhabitants of said town, destroying or injuring the property