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may provide for the imprisonment of the offender in the City
lock-up or County Jail.

158E 2. The Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall have the
power to regulate all sub-divisions of land within the corporate
limits of the City of Salisbury, and for the purpose of carrying
into effect this sub-section no plat or plan of any such sub-
division upon which any street, alley, lane, avenue, thoroughfare
or public highway shall have been laid out, shall be received by
the Clerk of the Circuit Court for Wicomico County for record
among the Land Records of said Wicomico County until the
said plat or plan has been approved in writing by the Mayor
and Council of Salisbury, and said approval stamped thereon.
The Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall have power to pre-
scribe rules and regulations governing the filing of plats or plans
for such sub-division and requiring all properties so sub-divided
to have permanent markers or boundary stones placed at all
street intersections, and to regulate and establish the width and
grades for all streets, alleys, lanes, avenues, thoroughfares, pub-
lic highways or side walks so laid out in any sub-division.

158 R. In addition to the powers to purchase property the
Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall have the power to con-
demn any property, right or interest, belonging to any per
son, persons, corporation or corporations (whether such cor-
poration be public or private, and whether such property,
right or interest be impressed with a prior public or quasi-
public use or not) for the purpose of making any public im-
provement.

The manner of procedure in case of any condemnation pro-
ceeding shall be as follows:

(1) The Council may, upon its own motion, or at the sug-
gestion of the Mayor, or at the instance of any citizen or citi-
zens, of Salisbury, if he sees fit so to do, by order, motion, reso-
lution, or ordinance, determine to undertake any improvement
which is authorized to make, and shall thereupon direct the City
Engineer, or some other competent person, to prepare a map or
plat of the proposed improvement. The validity of the pro-
ceedings shall in no measure depend upon the taking of this
preliminary step, it being intended merely as a means of
placing before the Council accurate information as to the work
to be done.

(2) The Mayor and Council shall pass an ordinance as other
ordinances are passed, directing that the proposed improve-
ment be made and specifying the course and location of the
proposed improvement and describing the property to be taken
with sufficient certainty to enable a surveyor to lay the same
out, and directing the Mayor to appoint a commission to esti-