WILLIAM T. HAMILTON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 549

	SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That the tax on the
	real property of non-residents, if there be no per-
	sonal property thereon, shall be collected out of the	Non-resi-
	rents of such property by attachment against the	dents.
	rights and credit of the owner, and shall be a lien
	on such real property, bearing interest until paid.
	SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That the mayor and
	councilmen shall have power to provide for laying
	out, opening and extending any street or alley with-	Lay out
	in the town, which, in their opinion, the public wel-	streets.
	fare or convenience may require ; to provide for as-
	certaining 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 compen-
	sated, and for assessing and levying either generally on the whole assessable property within the town, or
	specially on the property of the persons benefitted,
	the whole or any part of the damages and expenses
	which will be incurred in laying out or extending	Damages in-
	such street or alley; for granting appeals to the	curred.
	Circuit Court for Allegany county from the decision
	of any commissioners or other persons appointed in
	virtue of any ordinances to ascertain the damages
	occasioned by the opening or extending of such
	street or alley ; and for securing to the person in-
	jured, the right, on application within thirty days
	from the return of the report of the commissioners,
	to have decided, by a jury trial, whether any and
	what damage he has sustained ; to provide for col-
	lecting 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 such or-
	dinance, by advertisement.
	SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and
	Councilmen may, when requested in writing by the	Graded and
	owners of a majority of the front feet of the property on any street or alley or parts thereof in said town,	paved.