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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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138 A. Said board shall have power and authority if in their

judgment the protection of life and property demand it; to pass

ail proper and necessary ordinances; to require any railroad

company or corporation running its locomotives, engines or trains

across any of the streets within the corporate limits of the town ;

Flagmen.

to keep a watchman or flagman at the said crossings of said

streets, to warn persons of the approach of said locomotives,

engines or trains; and the said board shall have full power and

authority to impose such penalties as they may deem proper or

necessary to carry out and enforce the powers given by this sec-

tion; provided, no such penalty shall exceed the sum of fifty

dollars for each violation of said ordinances by such railroad

company or corporation; and such penalty shall be recovered

before a justice of the peace in and for Cecil county as other

small debts are recovered.

SEC. 139. Said president and commissioners shall have power

to provide for the payment of the damages and expenses of open-

ing, widening, laying out, grading, paving, draining, sewering

Opening of

and repairing of streets, lanes, alleys and sidewalks in the town,

streets, etc

by levying and assessing the same generally upon the whole of

the assessable property of the town, or specifically (not beyond

one-half of such damage or expense) upon the assessable property

of persons benefited thereby; and in the event that the same

shall be so assessed upon the property of said persons, the amounts

so assessed shall be collected by the said treasurer under the au-

thority conferred upon him in section one hundred and thirty-

four B, and the said board shall have power to pass all necessary

ordinances to that end.

146. The said board shall have power to levy and collect

taxes in the town not exceeding in any one year thirty-five cents

on the hundred dollars on the assessable property of the town;

and said board shall have power to pass ordinances regulating

the time and manner of payment of said taxes, and to provide for

Levy and
collect

an early payment of the same by making provisions for the allow-
ance of such discounts as may be necessary thereto; and once in

taxes.

every ten years, or oftener if they shall think proper, they shall

appoint an assessor who shall under oath assess and value the

property in the town in the same manner and with like authority

as county assessors; and the said town treasurer shall with the

authority given in this section, annually, assess and add to the

assessable property of said town such new or missed property or

buildings as may be brought into or erected therein; provided,

that said assessments shall not include real or personal property

situated beyond its boundaries, nor personal property only con-

structively in the town though owned by persons residing in it ;