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thereon, by complying with the same requirements that county collectors
are directed to comply with by the public general laws of this State, in
order to sell real estate for the payment of State and county taxes, except
that advertisement in one newspaper published in the town of Frostburg
shall be deemed sufficient advertisement; and the sale shall take place in
front of the postoffice of said town.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 151. 1878, ch. 255.

213. The assessors, if they believe it necessary, may annually assess
and value all goods, merchandise and stock in trade of each person resid-
ing or owning such goods in said town, and the same shall be taxed as
other property.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 152. 1870, ch. 77.

214. The Mayor and Councilmen shall have power to provide for lay-
ing out, opening and extending any street or alley within the town, which
in their opinion the public welfare or convenience may require; to pro-
vide for ascertaining whether any and what amount in value of damage
will be caused thereby, for which the owner or possessor of any property
through which such street or alley may pass, ought to be compensated,
and for assessing and levying, either generally on the whole assessable
property within the town, or specially on the property of persons benefited,
the whole or any part of the damages and expenses which will be incurred
in laying out or extending such street or alley; for granting appeals to
the circuit court for Allegany county from the decision of any commis-
sioners or other persons appointed in virtue of any ordinance to ascertain
the damage occasioned by the opening or extending of such street or alley,
and for securing to the person injured the right, on application within
thirty days from the return of the report of the commissioners, to have
decided by a jury trial whether any and what damage he has sustained;
to provide for collecting and paying the compensation awarded to any
person before any street or alley shall be so opened or extended, and to
enact all ordinances from time to time necessary and proper to the exer-
cise of the powers granted in this section; provided, that before the mayor
and councilmen proceed to execute any of the powers vested in them
by this sction, at least thirty days' notice shall be given of any application
which may be made for the passage of any such ordinance, by such adver-
tisement as they shall prescribe.

P. L. L. (1888), art. 1, sec. 153. 1878, ch. 255. 1902, ch. 88, sec. 153.
1922, ch. 31, sec. 153.

215. The Mayor and Councilmen shall have full power and authority,
whenever in their judgment the public interests or convenience may re-
quire, to have any street, lane or alley, or part thereof, in said city,
graded, paved, curbed, sewered, regraded, repaved, recurbed, resewered
or otherwise improved, and apportion the expense of such improvement,
exclusive of the cost of such curbing or recurbing, which shall be charged