ART. 1.] ALLEGANY COUNTY.

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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- 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 grant-
ing appeals to the circuit court for Allegany county
from the decision' of any commissioners or other per-
sons 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 in-
jured 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 exercise of the powers granted in this

section ; provided, that before the mayor and council-
men proceed to execute any of the powers vested in

Proviso.

them by this section, at least thirty days notice shall
be given of any application which may be made for
the passage of any such ordinance, by advertisement.

Notice.

82. Sub-Sec. 1. The mayor and councilmen may,
when requested in writing by the owners of a majority
of the front feet of the property on any street or alley
or parts thereof in said town, cause the same to be
graded, paved or otherwise improved, and levy the
expenses thereof on the property binding on said street
or alley, agreeably to the extent of such lots thereon,
and collect the expense of paving, grading or otherwise
improving the same, as directed in the next succeeding
section.

Ibid. 9. 23
Grading and
paving streets,
&c.

Sub-Sec. 2. Whenever the mayor and councilmen
shall levy any sum of money on the inhabitants of or
owners of property in said town, for the purpose of

Ibid. s. 24
Tax levied to be
a lien.