1182 FREDERICK COUNTY. [ART. 11.

already graded within the limits of said corporation to pave such
sidewalks or gutters, and from time to time to alter and change
the grade; and in case the parties owning the property fronting
on such sidewalks shall refuse to have such sidewalks and gutters
paved when directed to do so by any ordinance, or shall refuse to
change the grade when directed by any ordinance, the said com-
missioners shall have the work done and material found, and
shall cause the proportion of expenses chargeable to each pro-
prietor to be ascertained, and may recover the same by action in
the circuit court or before a justice of the peace, according to
the amount awarded, or may distrain the personal property of
such proprietor at any time within six months from the time
when the ascertainment of the proportion of such proprietor shall
be made; provided at least two days' notice be given by said
commissioners to the said proprietor, of the amount of his or her
assessment prior to such suit or distress; and the said corporation
is hereby vested with full power to pass all ordinances necessary
to carry this section into effect.

1888, ch. 867.

335. They may have all ordinances passed by them published
for two consecutive weeks in any newspaper published in said
village, and such publication shall have the same effect as putting
up copies of such ordinances according to the provisions of sec-
tion 319.

Ibid.

336. They are authorized and empowered, whenever it shall
seem to them expedient for the encouragement of the growth
and development of manufactures and manufacturing industry
in the village of Mechanicstown, to provide by general ordinance
for the abatement of any or all taxes levied by authority of said
commissioners, or any ordinance thereof, for any of the corporate
uses thereof, or for the exemption from taxation for municipal
purposes of any mechanical tools or implements, whether
worked by hand or by steam or other motive power, machinery,
manufacturing apparatus or engines owned by any individual,
firm or corporation in said village, and properly subject to valua-
tion and taxation therein, which said tools, implements, machinery,