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to provide for collecting and paying the compen- sation awarded to any person before any street or alley shall be so opened or extended, and to enact all ordinances from time to time necessary and proper to the exercise of the powers granted in
this section; provided, that before the Mayor and Council men proceed to execute any of the powers vested in them by this section, at least thirty days notice shall be given of any application which may be made for the passage of any such ordinance, by advertisement.	Proviso.
Sec. 23. And be U enacted, That the Mayor and Councilmen may, when requested in writing by the owners of a majority of thy front feet of the property on any street or alley or parts thereof in in said town, cause the same to be graded, paved or otherwise improved, and levy the expenses thereof on the property binding on said street or alley, agreeably to the extent of such lots thereon, and collect the expense of paving, grading or otherwise improving the same, as directed in the next succeeding section.		Grade and pave streets.
Sec. 24. And be it enacted, That whenever the Mayor and Councilmen shall levy any sum of money on the inhabitants of or owners of property in said town, for the purpose of grading, paving, or otherwise improving the streets, lanes, or alleys, in said town, or any of them, or for any other purpose authorized by law, the sum levied shall be a lien on the lot or lots on which the same may be levied, or which may be owned by the person to whom they are chargeable, until paid, and if such sum shall remain unpaid for sixty days after the same is due, and there shall be no personal property within the town, on which the Bailiff may levy, the same may be levied on so much of the real estate of the person owing such taxes as shall, in the opinion of the Mayor and Councilmen, be sufficient to pay the same and the Mayor and Councilmen shall lay off the part so		Levy to be a lien.
levied upon; and the Bailiff shall, after twenty days notice in one or more newspapers, printed in Allegany County, of the manner, time and place of said sale, sell the parts so laid off at public sale, and after deducting the expenses of said sale and 7		Bailiff to sell,