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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

to alter and change the grade ; and in case the
parties owning the property fronting on such

Refusal to
pave, etc.

sidewalks shall refuse to have such sidewalks
and gutters paved when directed to do so by any
ordinance, or shall refuse to change the grade
when directed by any ordinance, the said com-
missioners shall have the work done and material
found, and shall cause the proportion of expenses
chargeable to each proprietor to be ascertained,
and may recover the same by action in the cir-
cuit court or before a justice of the peace, ac-
cording to the amount awarded, or may distrain
the personal property of such proprietor at any
time within six months from the time when the
ascertainment of the proportion of such proprie-
tor shall be made; provided at least two days'
notice be given by said commissioners to the said
proprietor of the amount of his or her assess-
ment prior to such suit or distress ; and the said
corporation is hereby vested with full power to
pass all ordinances necessary to carry this sec-
tion into effect.
SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That said commis-

May publish.

sioners may have all ordinances passed by them
published for two consecutive weeks in any news-
paper published in said village, and such publi-
cation shall have the same effect as putting up
copies of such ordinances according to the pro-
visions of section eight of said act of eighteen
hundred and seventy, chapter ninety-eight.
SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the commis-

May abate
taxes.

sioners of Mechanicstown are authorized and
empowered, whenever it shall seem to them ex-
pedient for the encouragement of the growth
and development of manufactures and manufac-
turing industry in the village of Mechanics-
town, to provide by general ordinance for the
abatement of any or all taxes levied by authority
of said commissioners, or any ordinance thereof,
for any of the corporate uses thereof, or for the
exemption from taxation for municipal purposes
upon any mechanical tools or implements,
whether worked by hand or by steam or other
motive power, machinery, manufacturing appa-
ratus or engines owned by any individual, firm or
corporation in said village, and properly subject
to valuation and taxation therein, which said