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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

at the rate of six per centum per annum from the date of

the levy ; and the said bailiff shall collect the same by dis-

tress and sale of the goods and chattels of the delinquent,

or by levy on, and sale of the real estate, if there be no, or

not sufficient personal property, and he shall have the same

power to distrain for taxes and make sales thereunder as is

now provided for collectors of State and county taxes, or he

may proceed as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 21. And be it enacted, That the tax on real property

Tax on
real estate
of non-

of non-residents, if there be no personal property thereon,
may be collected out of the rents of such property by attach-

residents.

ment against the rights and credits of the owner.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That the mayor and coun-

Streets.

cilmen, shall have power to provide for laying out, opening,

extending, widening, straightening or re-locating any street,

alley or highway, or parts thereof, within the town, which

in their opinion the public welfare or convenience may

require ; to provide for ascertaining whether any and what

amount in value of damages 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 the person benefitted, the whole or any part of

the damages and expenses which will be incurred in laying

out, opening, extending, widening, straightening or re-locat-

ing such street, alley or highway ; to provide for granting

appeals to the Circuit Court of Allegany County from the

decisions of any commissioners or other persons appointed

in virtue of any ordinance to ascertain the damages occa-

sioned by the opening, extending, widening, straightening

or re-locating of such street, alley or highway, and for

securing to the person injured, the right on application,

within thirty days from the return of the commissioners, to

have decided by a jury trial, whether any, and what dam-

ages he has sustained ; to provide for collecting and pay-

ing the compensation awarded to any person before any

street, alley or highway shall be so opened, extended,

widened, straightened or re-located, and to enact all ordi-

ances, from time to time necessary and proper to the exer-

cise 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 of the application for the passage of any such

ordinance shall be given by advertisement, by hand bills

or otherwise.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That the mayor and council-

men may cause any highway, street or alley or parts thereof,