ART. 15. ] MONTGOMERY COUNTY.
ROCKVILLE.

1867, c. 63 amends and re-enacts section 66 as follows:

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66. The commissioners may pass such ordinances
not contrary to law as they may deem beneficial to the
town, may open and close streets, lanes and alleys;
grade, and pave the same, remove nuisances and
obstructions therefrom, restrain all public disorder
and disturbances, apprehend and fine all vagabonds,
impose a tax on dogs, geese and hogs running at
large in the streets, and may impose fines, penalties
and forfeitures for the violation of their ordinances,
and commit the offender to the county jail, until the
same be satisfied, with costs, and for the purpose of

1867, c. G3.
Commission-
ers authorized
to pass ordi-
nances, &c.

opening and closing any street, lane or alley in said
town, or for grading and paving the same, the said
commissioners may appoint three persons as exami-
ners, who shall be free holders in the said town, not
interested in or holding any lands through which
any street, lane or alley is to be opened, altered or
closed; and the said examiners shall be qualified

To open, &c.,
streets.

and proceed in all respects, in the same manner as
is provided in the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth,
nineteenth and twenty-second sections of article
twenty-eight. of the public general laws, in regard
to the opening, altering and closing of roads, except
the return of said examiners shall be made and rati-
fied, or rejected by the commissioners for said town,
instead of by the commissioners for said county, and
in case said commissioners for Rockville shall alter
the return made by said examiners, or a majority of
them, be ratified and confirmed, and the said com-
missioners for said town of Rockville shall pay the

Proceedings.

said damages to the respective parties or to their
executors or administrators, or their guardians,
agents or attorneys, before the said street, lane or
alley shall be opened, altered or closed, and any per-
son aggrieved by said decision may at any time
within sixty days, appeal to the circuit court fol

Damages.