HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 1411

tended, widened, straightened or close up; to provide for the
collection of the amounts adjudged to be paid by the owners
or possessors who may be benefited by the opening, widen-
ing, extension, straightening or closing up, the whole or in
part, of any street, lane or alley in the town, and to enact and
pass all ordinances from time to time which shall be deemed
necessary and proper to exercise the powers and effect the
objects above specified.

33. The said Mayor and Council of Hurlock shall have
full power to provide by ordinance for grading and paving
or regrading and repaving all sidewalks and gutters on any
street, lane or alley in said town of Hurlock, or any part
thereof, and to compel the owners of the abutting property to
pave and grade or repave and regrade such sidewalks and
gutters, and in case the owners of the abutting property shall
refuse or fail, after thirty days' notice thereof served upon
such abutting property owner or posted upon said property
when the same is not in the occupancy of its owner or own-
ers, the said Mayor and Council shall have the work done
and the material furnished, and shall cause the town bailiff to
ascertain the proportion of expense chargeable to each pro-
prietor, and may recover the same by action in the Circuit
Court or before a justice of the peace, according to amount
so awarded, and may collect such award as other town taxes
are collected, provided that before the passage of any ordi-
nance requiring the whole or any portion of such sidewalks
and gutters to be paved and graded or repaved and regraded,
and for the assessment of the expense of such work upon the
abutting owner ten days' notice shall be given in some news-
paper published in town of Hurlock, and if no newspaper be
published in said town of Hurlock, then in some newspaper
published in Dorchester County, and an opportunity shall
be afforded all persons interested therein to be heard by and
before said Mayor and Council of Hurlock.

34. If lands are needed for corporate purposes the same
proceedings shall be had for the condemnation of the same
as are requisite when the County Commissioners desire to
condemn lands for public use.

35. All taxes levied by the Mayor and Council of Hurlock
shall, from the time they are levied, be liens on the real estate
of the party, parties or body corporate, indebted for such
taxes, and on the personal estate thereof, so long as the
personal estate remains in the taxpayer's possession, and all
real estate shall be liable for taxes assessed against the same,
without reference to the name of the person to whom the same
shall have been assessed; and the sale thereof made for taxes