4848 ARTICLE 22.

bounds of said town which, in their opinion, public convenience may
require.

1906, ch. 315, sec. 241J. 1924, ch. 207, sec. 241J.

506. The Burgess and Commissioners shall have power to provide for
the laying out, opening, extending, widening, straightening or closing up,
in whole or in part, any street, highway, square, lane, alley, sewer, sani-
tary sewer, drain or watercourse within the bounds of said town which in
their opinion public convenience may require.

The Burgess and Commissioners shall have and are vested with full
power and authority to provide by ordinance for the grading, macadam-
izing, paving, concreting, curbing or for regrading, remacadamizing, re-
paving, reconcreting, recurbing of any street, lane or alley in Hancock,
or any part thereof, now condemned, ceded or opened as a public highway,
or which may hereafter be condemned, ceded, widened, straightened or
altered according to the laws and ordinances regulating same, and also for
assessing of costs of any such work in whole or in part pro-rata upon
the property, binding on such street, lane or alley or part thereof, and for
collecting such assessments as other taxes are collected.

The said Burgess and Commissioners shall also have and are vested with
power and authority to provide by general ordinance for the grading,
macadamizing, paving or curbing, or for the regrading, remacadamizing,
repaving or recurbing of any street, lane or alley or part thereof in Han-
cock, without the passage of a special ordinance in the particular case,
whenever the owners of a majority of the front feet of property binding
on such street, lane or alley, or part thereof shall apply for the same upon
terms and under conditions to be prescribed in said general ordinance and
for the assessment in any such case, of the cost of such work, in whole, or
in part pro rata, upon all the property binding upon such street, lane or
alley, or part thereof and for the collection of such assessment as other
town taxes are collected.

All such assessments against any lot or parcel of ground, (or the owner
thereof) shall be a lien against said lot or parcel of ground from, the time
the Burgess and Commissioners shall finally order the opening, widening,
extending, straightening or closing up of any street, highway, lane or
alley, square, sewer, sanitary sewer, drain or watercourse as the case may
be, and it shall be the duty of the Clerk or Secretary of the Burgess and
Commissioners to certify under his hand and seal of the Corporation, to
the Tax Collector, the amount assessed against any lot or parcel of ground
who shall forthwith enter the same on his books against the property so
assessed; the tax collector shall collect such assessment as other taxes are
collected, provided, that no property be sold for the payment of such
assessment until after the expiration of twelve months from the date
of the passage of the order of the Burgess and Commissioners in the
premises.

1906, ch. 315, sec. 241K.

507. The burgess and commissioners shall have full power to provide
for the introduction of water, electric light or gas into said town, and