ART. 3.] STREETS. 263

house on. such lot, or may be served personally on the owner
thereof, his tenants, agents or guardians, or left at his resi-
dence; or a copy of such order may be published once a
week for three successive weeks, in one or more newspapers
published in Baltimore county, and once a week for three suc-
cessive weeks, in one or more newspapers published in Baltimore
city; and any notice served or published in any of the modes as
aforesaid, shall be deemed sufficient.

1886, ch. 646.

246. If the owner of any lot fronting on any open or
traveled street, avenue or alley shall neglect or refuse to fill up,
dig down, pave, repave or repair the footways or sidewalks in
front of such lot, for the space of thirty days after service of a
printed order as aforesaid, to be reckoned in case of a publication
in a newspaper from the date of the first publication therein,
then the said county commissioners are hereby authorized and
directed to have the said footways or sidewalks filled up, dug
down, paved, repaved or repaired in the manner provided for in
the previous sections of this sub-title of this article.

Ibid.

247. All the footways or pavements referred to imder the
provisions of this sub-title of this article, shall be paved, graveled
or planked, at least five feet in width from the curb line.

Ibid

248. All streets, avenues and alleys that have been or may be
opened, condemned and constructed, or that may be opened, con-
demned or constructed for public use under and by virtue of any
of the provisions of this sub-title of this article, and also all
streets, avenues and alleys that have been opened and constructed
for public use, and dedicated by the owner of the property
through which said street, avenue or alley passes, shall be
deemed and taken as a public highway of Baltimore county, and
shall be kept in repair by the said county commissioners, as
other roads and avenues of said county.