4204 ARTICLE 18.

sewers paved when directed to do so by any ordinance within thirty days
from the date of its passage, the said Commissioners of Church Hill shall
have the materials found and the work done, and shall cause the clerk to
the said Commissioners of Church Hill to ascertain the proportion of
expenses chargeable to each proprietor or owner, and may recover the same
by action in the Circuit Court, or before the justice of the peace, accord-
ing to the amount awarded, or may distrain the personal property of such,
proprietor or owner at any time within six months from the time when
the ascertainment of the proportion of such proprietor or owner shall be
made by the clerk to the said commissioners; provided, that ten days'
notice shall be given by the Commissioners of Church Hill to the said
proprietor or owner of the amount of his or her assessment prior to such
suit or distress.

1912, ch. 809, sec. 113B.

162. The Commissioners of Church Hill are hereby empowered to
pass all laws and ordinances necessary for grading, curbing, paving, re-
pairing and regulating the sidewalks, streets, lanes, alleys, gutters and
sewers of said town, and impose a tax on any lot or lots fronting on any
street, lanes or alley for the purpose of grading, regulating, paving and re-
pairing the sidewalks in front thereof or to compel by fines or otherwise
the owner or owners of any lot or lots to pave or repair the sidewalks,
curbs or gutters in front thereof agreeable to the ordinances to be passed'
by said commissioners, and they shall have power to open and establish
new streets, lanes and alleys, and to straighten and widen old streets,
lanes and alleys, and to provide for the payment of damages and expenses
incurred by opening, widening or straightening the streets, lanes and
alleys as aforesaid, by levying and assessing the same generally upon the
whole assessable property of the town, or upon the persons to be benefited
thereby; that the commissioners are also empowered to erect lamps and
to provide for the lighting of the same; also to provide for public water
pumps, and also a public pound for the purpose of impounding trespassing
stock, and shall fix the amount of fines for every head of stock so im-
pounded, and also that such stock shall be liable for all fines, costs and
feeding the same.

1929, ch. 5.

163. The municipal corporation, the Commissioners of Church Hill
is authorized and empowered to own in its name, for the benefit of said
municipal corporation, any real estate situated within the limits of said
municipal corporation which it may believe will be of benefit and use to
said municipal corporation and to acquire said real estate either by pur-
chase or gift and donation; find when said real estate has been so acquired
by said municipal corporation that said real estate is to be deeded to said!
municipal corporation in fee.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 18, sec. 114. 1876, ch. 201.

164. As a source of revenue, they are empowered to levy such, tax