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pointment. The said Commissioners, before entering upon the discharge
of their duties, shall take the oath prescribed for town officers, and shall
receive a salary of six hundred ($600.00) dollars per annum for their
services and shall receive no other fee or compensation whatever. Any
one of said Street Commissioners shall be of a different political party
from the other two. In case of a vacancy, the Mayor, with the advice and
consent of the Council, shall appoint a successor to serve out the unex-
pired term. The said Commissioners, or a majority of them, when qual-
ified, shall constitute a board to be known as the Board of Street Com-
missioners, for the performance of the duties imposed upon them, and
they shall continue in office until their successors are respectively ap-
pointed and qualified. They shall elect one of their number as president,
and the Clerk of the Mayor and Council shall be Clerk of the Board of
Street Commissioners. He shall keep a full and true record of all their
proceedings, and. shall perform such duties as may be required of him;
and it shall be the duty of the said Board of Street Commissioners to re-
port every three months to the Mayor and Council an itemized account of
all moneys expended by them.
Valentine v. Hagerstown, 86 Md. 487. Hagerstown v. Hagerstown Ry., 123 Md. 184,

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 184. 1884, eh. 58. 1894, ch. 58, sec. 184.

350. Whenever the mayor and council shall direct any street, highway,
lane, alley, square, sewer, sanitary sewer, drain or water course within the
limits of the town, to be laid, opened, extended, widened, straightened or
closed up, in whole or in part, the board of street commissioners shall give
at least ten days' notice in one or more newspapers of the town, of their
purpose to lay out, open, extend, widen, straighten or close up the street,
highway, lane, alley, square, sewer, sanitary sewer, drain or water course
so directed to be laid out, opened, extended, widened, straightened or closed
up, and of the day, hour and place of their meeting for said purpose; and
the said board of street commissioners shall meet at the time and place
mentioned in the notice given by them, and proceed to exercise the powers
and perform the duties assigned to and required of them, and to ascertain
whether any and what amount in value of damages will be caused thereby,
for which the owner or occupant of any right or interest claimed in any
ground or improvements ought to be compensated, over and above the
amount in value of benefit which will thereby accrue to such owner or oc-
cupant, and ascertain what amount of benefit will thereby accrue to any
lot or parcel of ground within or adjacent to said town, or to the owner
or occupant thereof, and which said lot or parcel of ground or the owner
or occupant ought to pay.

Hagerstown v. Groh, 101 Md. 560.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 185. 1884, ch. 58. 1894, ch. 58, sec. 185.

351. Whenever the board of street commissioners shall have proceeded
to execute the powers conferred in the preceding section, they shall have
prepared an explanatory map which shall contain a correct description of
the street, highway, lane, alley, square, sewer, sanitary sewer, drain or