ART. 22.] HAGERSTOWN. 1969

the aforesaid penalties, it shall be lawful, in case of the conviction
of any person for vagrancy, to sentence such person to hard work
for a period not exceeding ten days.

1888, ch. 45.

172. Whenever the mayor and council shall exercise the
power under the preceding section to cause the sidewalks, curbs
and gutters, or any of them, along the public streets and highways
of said town to be graded, paved, repaired or improved, and such
curbs and gutters to be set and laid, and shall under or by any
ordinance, or order thereof, and in pursuance of the same, direct
the said sidewalks and curbs and gutters, or any of them, to be
graded, paved, repaired or improved, set and laid at the expense of
the abutting property, or the owner thereof, it shall be the duty of
the board of street commissioners, in pursuance of such order or
direction, to grade, pave, repair or improve such sidewalk, and to
set the curbs and lay such gutters, either, all or any, as it may
be so ordered; and the cost thereof to be paid by the abutting
property, or the owner thereof, shall be returned to the mayor
and council by the said board of street commissioners, together
with their proceedings in the premises; and the said board shall
also make return of the cost thereof to the collector of taxes, who
shall proceed to collect the same as thereunto authorized and di-
rected by said charter, or by any ordinance passed in pursuance
thereof, and the cost of making the same shall be a lien upon
the abutting property; and when such cost shall be collected from
said abutting property, or the owner thereof, the same shall be
carried by the collector to the credit of the fund used by said
board in executing the work so as aforesaid required of them to
ber done in the premises.

1884, ch. 58.

173. All ordinances heretofore passed by the mayor and coun-
cil of Hagerstown, and now in force, and not in conflict with the
provisions of this sub-title of this article, are continued in force
until the same are repealed or modified.

Ibid.

174. All ordinances passed in pursuance of the powers con-
ferred by section 171, shall be sent to the mayor for his approval.
He shall return the same to the next general or special meeting
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