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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

any other brute, beast or fowl; to regulate or prevent the
going at large, within the corporate limits, of dogs, and to
provide for the killing of worthless, dangerous or annoying
dogs; to levy a tax on dogs, male or female, kept within the
corporate limits, to fix the rates of said tax, and to collect the
same from the owners in the same manner as other town taxes
are in this sub-title of this article authorized to be collected,
and may, in default of payment of said tax, provide for the
killing of dogs whose owners make such default.

SEC. 54. They shall have power to provide for laying out,

Laying out
streets, etc.

opening and extending or widening any street or alley in the
town, and may fix the dimensions thereof, which in their
judgment, the public welfare or convenience may require; to
provide for ascertaining whether any and what amount in
value of damages will be caused thereby, for which the owner
or possessor of any property through or over which such street
or alley may pass, ought to be compensated and paid, and for
assessing or laying, either generally on the whole assessable
property within the town, or specially on the property of per-
sons benefited by such improvement, the whole or any part of
the damages and expenses which may be incurred in laying
oat, opening, extending or widening such street or alley; to
provide, in case they shall determine to levy and assess the
whole or any part of said damages and expenses upon the
owners of the property in the town specially benefited by such
improvements, for the apportionment among them of the
amount of such damages and expenses so determined, to be
levied upon them in due proportion to the amount of benefits
by them respectively received; to provide for the condemna-
tion of all land and property so taken for public use, in
opening, extending or widening any street or alley as
aforesaid, for the notice to be given in relation thereto, for the
payment of the damages so awarded, and for the collection
and mode of payment under any action allowed by law, for
the benefits so determined to be assessed; and to pass all ordi-
nances necessary and proper to the exercise and enforcement
of the powers granted in this section; provided, that no land
or property shall be taken under the powers given in this sec-
tion, without the payment or tender of just compensation
therefor to the party entitled to such compensation, as agreed
on with the owners of such property or awarded by a jury
summoned for the purpose by the sheriff of Carroll county, in
the mode and at the time to be prescribed by said Mayor and
Council.