ART. 13.] BELAIR. 1307

north fifty-four degrees, east fifty-four and eighty-four hundredths
perches to the place of beginning; and the citizens residing
within the said corporate limits are created a body corporate,
with perpetual succession, by the name of " The Town of Belair,"
with all the privileges of a body corporate, and the right to have
and use a common seal; and shall be liable and capable in law to
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of
law or equity.

1874, ch. 278.

23. The citizens residing within the corporate limits of said
town of Belair shall hold an election on the first Monday of May,
in every year, for five commissioners, who shall hold their offices,
for one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified,
and shall have the management of the town; and who shall have
full power and authority to enact and pass all ordinances to
preserve the health of the town, to promote cleanliness and good
order, to regulate the keeping and running at large of cattle,
swine, goats, dogs, fowls and other animals; to preserve and
promote the peace, order and good government of said town; to
regulate the police, and provide for the payment of the same
to impose and appropriate taxes, fines, penalties, and forfeitures
for the breach of their ordinances; to establish new avenues,
streets, alleys and sidewalks; to open, widen, narrow, repair,
extend, stop up or discontinue avenues, streets, alleys and side-
walks, now laid ont or used, and such as may be hereafter
lawfully established; to levy and collect taxes for establishing,
opening, narrowing, closing, repairing and keeping in order such
avenues, streets, alleys and sidewalks, and the roads leading-
from and to said town; provided, that when any avenue, street,
alley or sidewalk shall be opened, widened or closed, the full
value of all property taken and used for such avenue, street, alley
or sidewalk, or damage to be sustained in closing the same in
whole or in part, shall be assessed by the commissioners, and the
said full value so assessed shall be paid, or offered to be paid, to
the proprietors of said property before the said avenue, street,
alley or sidewalk is opened, widened or closed; and any proprie-
tor who may feel aggrieved by such action of the commissioners,
shall be entitled to an appeal at any time within thirty days after
such offer of payment, to the circuit court for said county; and