68 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1..

taxes, except that advertisement in one newspaper published in.
the town of Frostburg shall be deemed sufficient advertisement;
and the sale shall take place in front of the postoffice of said,
town.

1878, ch. 855.

151. The assessors, if they believe it necessary, may annually
assess and value all goods, merchandise and stock in trade of each
person residing or owning such goods in said town, and the same-
shall be taxed as other property.

1870, ch. 77.

152. The mayor and councilmen shall have power to provide
for laying out, opening and extending any street or alley within
the town, which in their opinion the public welfare or conveni-
ence 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
such street or alley may pass, ought to be compensated, and for
assessing and levying, either generally on the whole assessable
property within the town, 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 or extending such street or
alley; for granting appeals to the circuit court for Allegany
county from the decision of any commissioners or other persons
appointed in virtue of any ordinance to ascertain the damage
occasioned by the opening or extending of such street or alley,
and for securing to the person injured the right, on application,
within thirty days from the return of the report of the commis-
sioners, to have decided by a jury trial whether any and what,
damage he has sustained; to provide for collecting and paying
the compensation awarded to any person before any street or
alley shall be so opened or extended, and to enact all ordinances
from time to time necessary and proper to the exercise of the
powers granted in this section; provided, that before the mayor
and councilmen proceed to execute 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 suck
ordinance, by such advertisement as they shall prescribe.