ART. 6. ] CAROLINE COUNTY.

as county taxes are collected; and in order to enforce
the payment of said taxes, fines or forfeitures, the
duties and powers imposed and conferred on the col-
lectors of county taxes by the eighty-first article of the
code of public general laws of this state, and its seve-
ral supplements and amendments, are imposed and
conferred on said bailiff in as full and ample manner
as if the several provisions of the said eighty-first arti-
cle of the code of public general laws and its supple-
ments and amendments relating to the collection of
county taxes, were herein expressly enacted.

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118. The said commissioners may pass such by-laws
and ordinances as they shall deem necessary, for the
good government of said village and the inhabitants
thereof; for the removal of nuisances; to prevent swine

Commissioners
to pass ordi-
nances.

and geese from going at large; and for the opening,
extension, repairing, improvement and closing up of
streets, lanes and alleys of said village, and all damages
done, suffered or incurred by the opening, closing, ex-
tension or improving said streets, lanes or alleys, shall
be determined and assessed by three disinterested per-
sons, residents of said village, to be appointed by said
commissioners, who shall within twenty days after noti-
fication of their appointment, take an oath before a
justice of the peace for Caroline county, that they will
faithfully, fairly and without partiality or prejudice,
value and assess the loss and damage to be suffered
and incurred by any person or persons interested in
the property, over and through which the said street,
lane or alley is to be opened, closed, extended, widened
or improved, and they shall within ten days after such
valuation or assessment, return the same in writing
under their hands and seals, with a certificate of their
qualification before a justice of the peace, as hereinbe-
fore provided, to the commissioners of said village,
which said valuation and assessment shall be ratified
or rejected by the said commissioners as in their judg-
ment may seem proper. And if any person shall feel
aggrieved by the determination of the said commis-
sioners in ratifying or rejecting said award or return,

Open new
streets, &c.