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CECIL COUNTY. [ART. 8.

the reception of offenders, and the cost thereof shall
be assessed upon the citizens of said village and col-
lected as other town taxes hereinafter provided for.

Limits of the
town.

124. They shall have power to determine the limits
of said town and extend the same if they deem it ex-
pedient, and they shall file with the clerk of the circuit
court for Cecil county a description of the boundaries
by them established, which shall be deemed a record of
the boundaries of the town.

Power to estab-
lish limits of
streets, &c.

125. They shall have power to establish the limits
and width of the streets of said town, and to straighten
the same, and to remove obstructions therefrom, and
may open new streets, lanes and alleys in said town.

Opening, laying
out, &c, streets.

' 126. They shall have power to provide for the pay-
ment of damages and expenses of opening, widening,
straightening, laying out and grading streets in said
town, by levying and assessing the same generally
upon the whole of the assessable property of said
town, or specially upon the assessable property of
persons benefitted thereby.

Proceedings in
case of feme
covert, &c.

127. If on opening or laying out any new street,
lane or alley, the said commissioners cannot agree
with the owners of any land or property wanted for
the purpose, for the purchase, use or occupation of
the same, or if the owner thereof be a feme covert,
under age, non compos mentis, or out of said county,
application may be made to any justice of the peace
of said county, who shall thereupon issue his war-
rant, under his hand and seal, directed to the sheriff
of said county, requiring him to summon a jury, of
twenty inhabitants of said county, not related to the
parties nor in any wise interested, to meet on the
land to be valued, on a day to be named in said
warrant, not less than ten nor more than twenty
after the issuing of the same.

Jury

128. If at the said time and place any of the jurors
summoned do not attend, the sheriff shall immediately
summon as many jurors as shall be necessary, with
the jurors in attendance, to furnish a panel of twenty
jurors, and from them each party or his agent, or if