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of said town, to regulate the police and provide for the pay-
ment of the same, to impose and appropriate taxes, tines,
penalties and forfeitures for the breach of their ordinances,
and for the purpose of providing for the extinguishment of
fires, and to protect the property in said town, and for the
lighting of the streets thereof, to contract with corporations,
individuals or firms, for a period longer than one year; pro-
vided, that no such contract shall be made to bind the corpora-
tions for a longer period than fifteen years; to establish new
avenues, streets, alleys and sidewalks; to open, widen, narrow,
repair, pave, pike, straighten, extend, stop up or discontinue
avenues, streets, alleys and sidewalks now or hereafter to be
laid out or used, and such as may hereafter be lawfully estab-
lished; to levy and collect taxes for establishing, opening, nar-
rowing, closing, paving, piking, straightening, repairing and
keeping in order said avenues, streets, alleys and sidewalks, and
the roads leading from and to said town; provided, that when
any avenue, street, alley or sidewalk shall be opened, widened,
straightened or closed, the full value of all property taken and
used for such avenue, street, alley or sidewalk or damages to be
sustained in closing the same, in whole or in part, shall be
assessed by the commissioners, and the said full value so
assessed shall be paid or offered to be paid to the proprietors
of said property before the said avenue, street, alley or side-
walk is opened, widened, straightened or closed, and any pro-
prietor who may feel aggrieved by such action of the commis-
sioners, shall be entitled to an appeal at any time within thirty
days of such offer of payment, to the Circuit Court for said
county, and such appeal shall be heard and determined as
appeals from justices of the peace are now heard; and the
commissioners, in assessing the damages to said land taken,
shall take into consideration the benefits and advantages de-
rived by the proprietors thereby.
30. At all elections for Town Commissioners, the voting
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Qualifications
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shall be by ballot, and all male residents residing within the
corporate limits, above the age of twenty-one years, and as-
sessed with one hundred dollars' worth of real or personal
property on the tax book of said town shall be entitled to
vote. The judges of election shall make returns of election
under the hands and seals of a majority of them, or under the
hand and seal of any of them, to be returned by themselves
to the clerk of the Circuit Court for Harford County, in like
manner as now provided by law in general elections through-
out the State; and said judges of election shall have access to
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