ART. 1.] ALLEGANY COUNTY.

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opinion, the public welfare or convenience may re-
quire, to provide for ascertaining whether any and
what amount in value of damage will be caused
thereby, for which the owner or possessor of any pro-
perty 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 prop-
erty of persons benefitted, 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 decisions of any commissioners or
other persons appointed in virtue of any ordinance
to ascertain the damages occasioned by the opening
or extending of such street or alley, and for securing
to the person injured, the right on application with-
in thirty days from the return of the report of the
commissioners, to have decided by jury trial whether
any and what damage he or she 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 exercise of the powers granted in this section;

provided, that before the mayor and councilman pro-
ceed to execute any of the powers vested in them by
this section, at least thirty days' notice shall be given
of any application which may be made for the pas-
sage of any such ordinance by written advertisement
posted at least at three of the most public places in
the town. Upon the return of any assessment made
under any ordinance, passed under this section, the
clerk of said town shall cause a copy thereof to be
for thirty days, posted at the post office in said town.

Proviso.