SOMERSET COUNTY. 1097

grieved by any seizure made by the police, he may within three
days after such seizure appeal to the Mayor and Council, who
shall make such order therein as they or he may deem just.
The rent of the stalls and shambles of the market house may be
recovered in the name of the Mayor and Council of Crisfield
before a justice of the peace, as small debts are recorded.

The Mayor and Council of Crisfield shall have charge of all
the streets and alleys of said city; shall have power to make by-
laws and pass ordinances to establish grades for the streets,
gutters and sidewalks of the city, regulate 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 own-
ers of the abutting property, which cost shall be a lien on the
abutting property and recoverable by an action of law, or to
compel by fines or otherwise the owners or proprietors of any
such lot to grade, pave, repave and curb the sidewalk in front
thereof, agreeable to an ordinance that may hereafter be
passed; the tenant or occupant of any house or parcel of land
bordering on any street in said city, under a lease for less than
seven years, shall be chargeable with and pay the taxes thereon
and may collect same from the owner or deduct the amount
paid with interest from the rent due or to become due and shall
l>e entitled to credit thereon to the extent of the tax so paid;
tenants under leases for more than seven years shall be re-
garded as owners; to provide by ordinance for condemning,
laying out, opening, extending and making new streets or alleys,
and for abandoning, altering, straightening, widening, grading,
improving or closing up in whole or in part, opening, widening,
grading, improving or closing up in whole or in part any ex-
isting street or alley, and for removing trees, posts and other
obstructions, and for laying out public squares, drains, sewers
and watercourses; and all benefits conferred or damages done,
suffered or incurred by laying out, opening and making of new
streets or alleys, or by altering, straightening, widening, grad-
ing, improving or closing up in whole or in part any existing
street or alley, and for removing trees, posts and other obstruc-
tions, and for laying out public squares, drains, sewers and
watercourses; and all benefits or damages done, suffered or in-
curred by laying out, opening and making of new streets or
alleys, or by altering, straightening, widening, grading, im-
proving or closing up in part any existing street or alley or
laying out public squares, drains and watercourses shall be de-
termined and assessed by three disinterested persons, or a ma-
jority of them, residents of said city, appointed by the Mayor
and approved by the Council, who shall within ten days after
notification of their appointment, take an oath before a jus-