32 ALLEGANY COUNTY [ART. 1.

or relocating any street or alley, or parts thereof, within the city,
which in their opinion the public welfare or convenience may
require; to provide for ascertaining whether any and what
amount in value of damage will be caused thereby, for which the
owner or possessor of any property through which said street or
alley-way may pass, ought to 'be compensated, by the appointment
of commissioners to assess the same; to provide for assessing and
levying, either generally on the whole assessable property within
the city, or specially on the property of persons benefited, the
whole or any part of the damages and expenses which will be
incurred in laying out, opening, extending, widening, straighten-
ing or relocating such street or alley, or parts thereof, and
grading the same; to provide for collecting and paying the com-
pensation awarded to any person, before any such street or alley,
or parts thereof, shall be laid out, opened, extended, widened,
straightened or relocated, and to enact all ordinances, from time
to time, necessary or proper to the exercise of the powers granted
in this section; provided, that before they shall proceed to exe-
cute any of the powers vested in them by this section, at least
thirty days' notice shall be given of any application which may
be made for the passage of any such ordinance, by advertise-
ments in at least two newspapers printed in said city; and pro-
vided further, that upon the return of any assessment of damages
or benefits, or both, made under any ordinance passed under this
section, the clerk of said city shall cause a copy thereof to be
published once a week for four successive weeks in two news-
papers printed in said city; and provided further, that whenever
said mayor and city council open, lay out, extend, widen,
straighten or relocate any street or alley, or any part or parts
thereof, they shall establish the grade thereof, and if in their
judgment proper so to do, they shall grade the same; and pro-
vided further, that the publications to be made under this sec-
tion, in two newspapers, shall always be made in newspapers
of opposite political faith.

1878, ch. 484.

67. Any person who shall feel aggrieved by the decision of
the commissioners appointed to lay out such streets, as to the
amount of damages allowed him or benefits assessed against him,
may appeal therefrom at any time within thirty days after said