WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 1575

Commission; to establish and maintain public parks and
playgrounds; to establish and maintain a station house or
lockup for temporary confinement of violators of the laws
and ordinances of the Town; to punish and suppress
tramps and vagrants; to regulate the keeping of dogs in
said Town and to provide for the licensing and taxing of
the same; to provide for killing of dogs on which no license
or taxes are paid; to provide for protection of all public
property, cemeteries and property of all public service com-
panies or corporations; to regulate and control all offensive
trades, manufacture and traffic in offensive fertilizer or
other commodities within the Town limits; to provide for
the codification of all ordinances which may have been or
may hereafter be passed; to provide by ordinance
for condemning, laying out, opening, extending and making
new streets or alleys, and for altering, straighteing, widen-
ing, grading, improving or closing up in whole or in part
any existing street or alley, and for removing trees, posts
and other obstructions, and for laying out public squares,
drains, watercourses, and all benefits or damages done,
suffered or incurred by the straightening, widening, grad-
ing, improving or closing up, in whole or in part, any
existing street or alley, or laying out public squares,
drains or watercourses, shall be determined and assessed
by three distinterested persons, residents of said town,
appointed by the Board of Commissioners, who shall with-
in ten days after the notification of their appointment take
an oath before a Notary Public or a Justice of the Peace
of Wicomico County, that they will faithfully and fairly,
without partiality, or prejudice, value and assess the loss
and damage to be suffered and incurred by any person
interest in the said property, over, through, and by which
the said street, alley, square, drain or waterway is to be
opened, closed, extended, widened, graded or improved,
and also to estimate the benefits that may accrue therefrom
to any such property over, through, and by which the said
street, alley, square, drain or waterway is to be opened,
closed, extended, widened, graded or improved, or any
property adjacent thereto, or any other property injured
or benefitted by said street, alley, square, drain or water-
way; they shall give at least ten days' notice in three
public places in the corporate limits of their purpose to
lay out, open, extend, close up, widen, straighten, grade
or improve the street or alley, square, drain or waterway,
so desired to be laid out, opened, extended, closed up,
widened, straightened, graded or improved, and of the
day, hour and place of meeting for said purpose, and they
shall meet at the time and place mentioned in the notices