EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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that no shares of stock shall be valued at a less sum than
fifteen dollars per share, and provided, further, that the said
Mayor and Council shall assume the bonded indebtedness
of said company, to- wit, thirty thousand dollars; and in the
event that said Easton Water Company of Talbot county
shall refuse to furnish the information required by this section
or shall decline to sell upon the terms herein stated, then
the said Mayor and Council shall be authorized to construct
a system of water works or to grant the franchise to a private
corporation to supply the said city with water and to con-
tract therewith for a supply for said city of Easton, but not
otherwise.

70. If any person shall wilfully stop up, obstruct, injure
or damage the passage of the waters of any of the common

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sewers of drains, he shall be fined a sum not exceeding one
hundred dollars, to be collected as other fines are collected.
The Mayor and Council shall have full power to provide for
constructing, opening, enlarging, or straightening any sewer
or drain, public or private, through any private property,
upon giving thirty days' notice in writing to the owner or
agent of said private property, or to one of them, if more than
one, leaving such notice at the usual place of abode of such
owner or agent or at the usual place of abode of one of them;
if more than one, or if none of said parties live in the town
of Easton, by setting up said notice on the land or premises,
to provide for ascertaining what amount of actual benefit will
thereby accrue to the owner or possessor of any ground or
improvements within or adjoining the town, being governed
as far as practicable by the number of superficial feet
drained, and to provide for assessing and levying, either
generally on the whole assessable property of the said town
or by a loan for the special purpose for constructing, open-
ing, enlarging or straightening any sewer, the sum necessary
to pay the expense or cost, or specially on the property of
persons actually benefited, the whole or any part of the
damage and expenses which they shall ascertain will be
incurred in constructing, opening, enlarging or straightening
any sewer in any street, lane or alley or through any
private property in said town; to provide for granting

Authority to
construct,
open, enlarge
etc., any
sewer or
drain.

appeals to the Circuit Court for Talbot county from the
decision of any commissioners or other persons appointed
in virtue of any ordinance, to ascertain the damage which

Appeal may be
taken.