ART. 23.] WICOMICO COUNTY. 1117

this Act or by the laws of the State of Maryland, whether the
same herein specifically named or not.

158E. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and Council of
Salisbury shall have charge of all the streets and alleys of
said city, but shall in no manner be responsible for the main-
tenance or control of the five bridges across the branches of
the Wicomico river, which shall be and remain under the con-
trol of the County Commissioners of Wicomico county. When
any milldam within the limits of the city of Salisbury has been
or may be condemned as a public street or highway, and there
be flumeways or passages for water from the pond or lake to
the mill or mills, or water power used on opposite side of the
pond or lake, such flume or waterway and the bridge or bridges

over same shall be constructed of the same width as the street
or highway in a substantial and safe manner, and maintained
at the expense of the owner or owners of such lake or pond,
mill, mills or water powers, and such owner be liable for any
damage or injury caused by the negligence of such owner or

owners in constructing or maintaining the same; and the
Mayor and Council may pass such ordinances with appropriate
fines and penalties for the enforcement of these provisions.
The owner of any such lake, pond, mill, mills or water power
may, after one month's notice to the Mayor and Council, aban-
don such flume or flumes or waterways by written notice to
the Mayor and Council, whereupon the Mayor and Council shall
have full control of the street or highway over all of said dam
or dams as other streets or highways in said city. The Mayor
and Council of Salisbury shall have power to make by-laws and
pass ordinances to establish grades for the streets, gutters and
sidewalks of the city, the width thereof, and prescribe the
material of which they shall be built; to cause the sidewalks
along said public street to be graded, curbed, paved, repaved
or improved at the cost and expense of the owners of the abut-
ting property, which cost shall be a lien on the abutting prop-
erty and recoverable by an action at law, or compel by fines
or otherwise the owners or proprietors of any such lot to
grade, pave, repave and curb the sidewalks in front thereof
agreeably to ordinances that may hereafter be passed; to pro-
vide by ordinance for condemning, laying out, opening, extend-
ing and making new streets or alleys, and for altering, straight-
ening, widening, grading, improving or closing up in whole or
in part any existing street or alley, and for removing trees,
posts and other obstructions, and for laying out public squares,
drains, watercourses; and all benefits or damages done, suffered
or incurred by laying out, opening and making of new streets
or alleys, or by altering, straightening, widening, grading, im-