2028 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 22.

ning or closing tip of any street, highway, lane, alley, square, drain
or water-course, as the case may be; and it shall be the duty of
the clerk of the corporation of Smithsburg, immediately upon
the passage of such order by the burgess and commissioners, to
notify the tax collector of the amount of benefits so assessed against
any lot or parcel of ground, and the tax collector shall forthwith

enter the same on his books against the property so assessed. The
tax collector shall collect such benefits as other taxes are collected;
provided, that no property be sold for the payment of benefits until
after the expiration of six months from the date of the passage of

the order of the burgess and commissioners in the premises.

1888, ch. 313.

388. The notice herein provided to be given by the burgess

shall apply in all cases, whether the owners of the property to be
affected by the proceedings be residents or non-residents, infants,
non compotes mentis, or laboring under any other legal disability.

SURVEYOR.

1874, ch. 166.

389. It shall be the duty of the county surveyor or his author-
ized deputy, to survey all public roads opened by the county
commissioners, and to record the same in the book mentioned in
the succeeding section.

Ibid.

390. It shall be the duty of the county surveyor to prepare a
road book for the use of the county commissioners, said book to
be furnished by them, in which said book the public roads here-
tofore opened, or which have been and are now used as public
roads, shall be fully and accurately described, giving the length
of said road, the number and kind of bridges, the nature of
ground over which said roads pass, the streams they cross, and
such other information as may be deemed useful, together with
an estimate of the cost of keeping said roads in repair.

Ibid.

391. Said surveyor shall, for his services be entitled to the
same fees as are now authorized by law to be charged for similar

services, under the general laws of this State.