4554 ARTICLE 21.

1912, ch. 525.

163. In addition to the powers already conferred on the Mayor and
Council of Easton the said "The Mayor and Council of Easton" shall have
power to pass all such ordinances as they may deem necessary to prevent
the pollution, at any point in said town or within half a mile of the town
boundaries, of all streams or water courses passing through said town or
the suburbs thereof by persons residing within said town or elsewhere, and
to provide penalties for the violation thereof.

1906, ch. 458, sec. 70.

164. If any person shall wilfully stop up, obstruct, injure or damage
the passage of the waters of any of the common sewers or drains, he shall
be fined a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be collected as other
fines are collected. The Mayor and Council shall have full power to pro-
vide for constructing, opening, enlarging, or straightening any sewer or
drain, public or private, through any private property, upon giving thirty
days' notice in writing to the owner or agent of said private property, or
to one of them, if more than one, leaving such notice at the usual place of
abode of such owner or agent or at the usual place of abode of one of
them; if more than one, or if none of said parties live in the town of
Easton, by setting up said notice on the land or premises, to provide for
ascertaining what amount of actual benefit will thereby accrue to the
owner or possessor of any ground or improvements within or adjoining
the town, being governed as far as practicable by the number of superficial
feet drained, and to provide for assessing and levying, either generally
on the whole assessable property of the said town or by a loan for the
special purpose of constructing, opening, enlarging or straightening any
sewer, the sum necessary to pay the expense or cost, or specially on the
property of persons actually benefited, the whole or any part of the dam-
age, and expenses which they shall ascertain will be incurred in con-
structing, opening, enlarging or straightening any sewer in any street,
lane or alley or through any private property in said town; to provide
for granting appeals to the Circuit Court for Talbot County from the
decision of any commissioners or other persons appointed in virtue of any
ordinance, to ascertain the damage which will be incurred or the benefits.
which Will accrue to the owners or possessors of any ground or improve-
ments for constructing, opening, enlarging or straightening in any street,
lane or alley or through any private property, any sewer which in their
opinion the public welfare or convenience may require, and for securing
to every such owner or possessor the right on application within a reason-
able time to have decided by a jury trial whether any damage and what
amount of damage has been caused, or whether any benefit and what
amount of benefit has accrued to them; and to provide for collecting and
paying over the amount of compensation adjudged to each person to
receive the same, or investing in stock of said corporation, for the use
of any person who, because of infancy, absence from the town or other
cause, may be prevented from receiving it, before any sewer shall be