E. LOUIS LOWE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1862.

lic welfare or convenience may require, to provide for
ascertaining whether any, and what amount in value,

of damage will be caused thereby, for which such
owner or possessor ought to be compensated, and to
provide for assessing and levying either generally on
the whole assessable property within said town, or spe-
cially on the properly of persons benefited, the whole,
or any part of the amount of damages and expenses
which they shall ascertain will be incurred in laying
out, opening or extending any street or alley in said
town; to provide for granting appeals to the Circuit
court for Allegany county, from the decisions of any
commissioners, or other persons appointed in virtue of
any ordinance, to ascertain the damages which will be
caused to the owners or possessors of ground or improve-
ments by locating, opening or extending any street or
alley within said town, and for securing to every such
owner or possessor the right, on application within a
reasonable time, to have decided, by a jury trial, wheth-
er any damage has been caused, and to what amount;
to provide for collecting and paying over the amount of
compensation adjudged to each person entitled, before
any street or alley shall be so opened or extended; and to
enact and pass all ordinances, from time to time, which
shall be deemed necessary and proper to exercise the

CHAP. 332.

powers and effect the objects above specified; Provided
nevertheless, that before the mayor and councilmen of
the town of Cumberland, proceed to execute any of
the powers vested in them by this act, at least thirty
days notice shall be given of any application which
may be made for the passage of any ordinance, by ad-
vertisement in at least two newspapers printed in said
town.

Proviso.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That upon the return of
any assessment to be made under any ordinance to be

passed in virtue of this act, the clerk to the corporation

of said town shall cause a copy of said assessment to
be published for thirty days in at least two newspapers
printed in said town.

Copy of as-
sessment to be
published.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That the time within
which any appeal is to be made from any assessment,
shall be completed from and after the expiration of the
thirty days mentioned in the preceding section.

Appeal.