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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

61. The tenant or occupant of any house or parcel

Tenant

of land in said town shall be chargeable with the

chargeable.

taxes thereon, and may collect the same from the

owner, or deduct the same from the rent due, or to

become due, and shall be entitled to a credit to that

extent on his or her rent.

62. The said commissioners may assess and levy a

tax not exceeding two dollars each for any dog be-

longing to or kept by any of the inhabitants of the

town, to be recovered and collected as other taxes;

Levy tax on
dogs.

and may compel the bailiff to kill any dog within

the town whose owner cannot be ascertained, or

whose ostensible owner shall fail to pay or evade the

payment of the said tax; and they shall adopt such

by-laws as will effectually enforce the provisions of

this section.

63. The said commissioners may cause the streets

in said town to be paved whenever and in such

Cause streets
to be paved.

manner aa they may think proper, and may require

the owner of real or leasehold property to pave

such part of the street as may border on his ground

or property; and if the owner of any such property

shall refuse or neglect to have the same paved for a

longer time than thirty days after notice thereof by

the bailiff, the commissioners may have the same

paved at his or her expense, and may collect the

cost of such pavement from such owner in the same

manner as other debts are collected, and any judg-

ment obtained in such case shall be a prior lien on

said property.

64. If any ground bordering on any street ordered

to be paved shall be leased for a term less than seven

years, the lessee or tenant may pave or repair said

Lessee or ten-

street, or pay for the same if done by the commis-

ant may pare.

sioners, and the same shall be allowed in part pay-

ment of the rent due and to become due to the

owner; and it' such tenant should refuse as afore-

said the commissioners may, in their discretion, make

him responsible for said costs, or proceed against the

owner.

65. If land or other property should be needed

for corporate puposes, that is for streets, wharves,

Empowered
to condemn.

market-houses, engine-houses, or any other purpose,
the commissioners are hereby empowered to con-

demn the same, unless they can purchase it at a fair

price, and their mode of procedure shall be as fol-