HENRY LLOYD, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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grade and pave streets and lay flag or stepping
stones across the same, to provide the width

of the sidewalks on such streets to be paved,
and the material to be used in paving, and to
require the owners of lots of ground in front of
which such grading or paving is to be done to
do the same at their own expense, respectively;
and if the owner of any lot or parcel of ground
in front of which said sidewalk has been re-
quired to be graded or paved, as aforesaid,
shall neglect to grade or pave the same for the
space of two months after notice has been
given by the Mayor, the Common Council may
direct the Mayor to cause the same to be done
at the expense of said owner, and the cost or

Grade and pave.

expense thereof shall be a lien on such lot or
lots, respectively, and may be recovered by said
Mayor and Common Council from said owner
or owners of such lots as other debts of like
amount are recoverable by law.

SEC. 15. Act of eighteen hundred and seventy,
That the said Mayor and Common Council
shall have power to provide for laying out,
opening and extending, altering or widening
any road, street or alley in the limits of said

Expense of.

town, and to fix the dimensions thereof which,
in their judgment, the public welfare and
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 of any property through or
over which such road, street or alley may pass,
ought to be compensated and paid; and for
assessing and laying either generally on the
whole assessable property in said corporate
limits, or specially on the property of persons
benefited by such improvement, the whole or

Improvement.

any part of the damages and expenses which
may be incurred in laying out, opening, ex-
tending, altering or widening such road, street
or alley; to provide, in case they shall deter-
mine to levy and assess the whole or any part
of said damages and expenses upon the owner
or owners of the property in said town specially

Damage.