ART. 21.] TALBOT COUNTY. 1029

think the public interest requires it, cause an assessment to
be made of all real and personal property within the corporate
limits of said town subject to assessment of State and county
taxes, and they may prescribe the manner in which such assess-
ment shall be made, and provide for the adjustment of all
differences in relation to such assessments, and do all other
things necessary in making such assessment; provided, that
any person or body corporate shall have the right to appeal to
the Circuit Court for Talbot county and Court of Appeals of
Maryland.

SEC. 196D. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners of St.
Michaels shall have full power to provide for constructing,
opening, enlarging or straightening any sewer, gutter or drain,
public or private, through any private property upon giving
at least thirty days' notice in writing to the owner or agent of
said private property by leaving such notice at the usual place
of abode of such owner or agent, or by setting up said notice on
the land or premises of the intention to construct, open, enlarge
or straighten sewer, gutter or drain through said property

SEC. 196E. And be it enacted, That the year for improving
and repairing the streets, lanes, alleys and thoroughfares of St.
Michaels shall be reckoned from the first day of May, inclu-
sive, to the thirtieth day of April, inclusive, in the next year,
every able bodied male person between the ages of twenty-one
and sixty years, who has resided in said town for the three
months next preceding May the first shall be bound to work on
the streets, lanes, alleys and thoroughfares of said town for
two days in every year, as the year is herein defined, and if
any person who is liable to render such service fails to attend
as directed on notice from the bailiff, or who shall appear and
fail to work or refuse to work and render proper service as
by the person or persons supervising the work he is required
and instructed to do, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on
conviction thereof before a justice of the peace of St. Michaels
district of Talbot county or in the Circuit Court of Talbot
county, shall be fined two dollars and shall be adjudged to
pay fine and costs and stand committed until fine and costs
are paid. During the month of April in each year, beginning
with the year 1908, the bailiff, with the aid of the Commis-
sioners of St. Michaels, shall make out a list of all persons
whom, on the first day of May next, will be liable to render ser-
vice, and the bailiff shall call on each person named therein to
pay the sum of one dollar. Each person who shall pay the sum
shall receive a receipt exempting him from service for the
current year, beginning on the first day of May. Within five
days before the first day of June the bailiff shall make a list