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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

provided that duplicate copies of said return shall be made

out, one copy of, which shall be filed with the clerk of the

city council and the other with the clerk of the Circuit

Power to

Court for Allegany County ; and they shall have power to

enforce or-

enforce their ordinances by fines and penalties, and if said

dinances

mayor and city council shall be authorized by the vote

above mentioned at any time to pledge the credit of the city

to the amount of ten thousand dollars or more, then they

Issue
bonds

may at once issue coupon bonds of said corporation therefor,

at a rate of interest not exceeding six per cent, and payable

in not less than thirty or more than fifty years, with interest

payable semi-annually ; and may levy a tax to pay the

interest thereon and provide a sinking fund for the

redemption of said bonds. But no franchise of the city shall

be granted to any corporation or individual, unless notice

of the same shall have been first published for at least two

weeks, in two newspapers of the city of Cumberland, of oppo-

site politics.

65. Said city council shall, on or before January first

Codifying

eighteen hundred and ninety-three provide by ordinance

ordinance

^s for the codification of all ordinances which have been or may

hereafter be passed by it, and for the printing of such codifi-

cation thereof, and the printed copy thereof issued by au-

thority and under the sanction of said body shall be legal

evidence of the passage of said ordinances and the contents

thereof, in any court of law or equity in this State, and

shall provide a book to be called "Ordinance Book" in

which the clerk shall record all ordinances of the city, and

properly index the same.

66. The mayor and city council shall have power to pro-

vide for the Laying out, opening, extending, widening,

Opening,
extending

Straightening or re-locating of any street or alley or parts

and
widening

thereof within the city, which in their opinion, the public

streets

welfare or convenience may require ; to provide for ascer-

taining whether any and what amount in value of damage

will be caused thereby, for which the owner or possesor of

any property through which said street or alley-way may pass,

ought to be compensated, by the appointment of commis-

sioners to assess the same ; to provide for assessing and levy-

ing 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,

straightening or re-locating such street or alley or parts

thereof and grading the same ; to provide for collecting and

paying the compensation awarded to any person before any

such street or alley or part thereof shall be laid out, opened,