682 LAWS OF MARYLAND.

taxing the expense thereof in whole or in part upon the respec-
tive owners of the property fronting thereon; for the regulating
of the running of traction engines through said town and pre-
scribing the kind of fuel to be used therein; for the laying of
sewers or other drains and to regulate the use thereof, and to
enter into contracts with property owners for the use thereof
for a term of one or more years, and t'o provide in said contract
for the collection, of any rents or other sums of money charged
by said commissioners for the use thereof, which rents or other
charges shall be a lien upon the property connected with said
sewer, and shall be collected by the bailiff as taxes levied by said
commissioners are collected; for license or tax on public exhi-
bitions or amusements of all kinds, billiards, pool or bagatelle
tables and ten-pin alleys, and for the collection of the same;
for a tax on persons for every dog kept by them, and to cause
any dog to be killed; for tax on telephone, telegraph and elec-
tric light poles; for the promotion of the morality, health, con-
venience and safety of the inhabitants of said town; and for
the opening, widening, extending, repairing, improving and
closing up of streets, lanes and alleys of said town; and all
damage done and all benefits received by the opening, closing,
extending, widening or improving said streets, lanes or alleys,
or for the laying of any sewers or opening of any drains over
private property, shall be determined and assessed by three
disinterested persons, residents of said town, to be appointed
by said commissioners, who shall within a reasonable time after
the notification of their appointment take an oath before a jus-
tice of the peace or notary public for Caroline county that they
will faithfully, fairly and without partiality or prejudice, value
or assess in money the loss and damage to be suffered and in-
curred, as well as benefits to be received by any person inter-
ested in the property over, through and near said street, lane,
alley, sewer or drain to be opened, closed, extended, widened or
improved, and they shall return the same in writing, under
their hands and seals, with a certificate of their qualifications,
before a justice of the peace or notary public as aforesaid to
the said commissioners, which said valuation and assessment
shall be ratified or rejected by the said commissioners, as they
in their judgment may deen proper; and if any person shall
feel aggrieved by the determination of the said commissioners
in ratifying or rejecting said award or return, or in the amount
of compensation awarded, benefits assessed or in any manner
relating to the same, he may appeal within sixty days after
said ratification to the Circuit Court for Caroline county, and
either party shall be entitled to a trial by a jury, and the judg-
ment of said court shall be final among the parties of such