ART. 7.] MANCHESTER. 721

1886, ch 132.

80. The mayor and common council of the corporation of
Manchester shall have power to grade and pave streets and lay
flag or stepping-stones across the same; to provide the width of
the sidewalks on such streets to be paved, and the material to be
used in paving, and to require the owners of lots of ground in
front of which said grading or paving is to be done, to do the same
at their own expense, respectively; and if the owner of any lot or
parcel of ground in front of which said side-walk has been
required to be graded or paved, as aforesaid, shall neglect to grade
or pave the same for the space of two months after notice has
been given by the mayor, the common council may direct the
mayor to cause the same to be done at the expense of said owner,
and the cost or expense thereof shall be a lien on such lot or lots,
respectively, and may be recovered by said mayor and common
council from said owner or owners of such lots as other debts of
like amount are recoverable by law.

Ibid.

81. They shall have power to provide for laying out, opening
and extending, altering or widening any road, street or alley in
the limits of said town, and to fix the dimensions thereof, which,
in their judgment, the public welfare and convenience may
require; to provide for ascertaining whether any and what
amount in value of damage will be caused thereby, for which the
owner of any property through or over which such road, street or
alley may pass, ought to be compensated and paid; and for assess-
ing and laying, either generally, on the whole assessable property
in said corporate limits, or specially on the property of persons
benefited by such improvement, the whole or any part of the
damages and expenses which may be incurred in laying out, open-
ing, extending, altering or widening such road, street or alley;
to provide, in case they shall determine to levy and assess the
whole or any part of said damages and expenses upon the owner
of the property in said town specially benefited by such improve-
ments, for the apportionment among them of the amounts of such
damages and expenses so determined to be levied upon them, in
due proportion to the amount of benefits by them, respectively,
received; to provide for the appointment of two or more com-
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