WICOMICO COUNTY. 5101

notice the said Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall have full control of
the street or highway over all the said dam as other streets or highways
in said City.

The Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall have power to make by-laws
and to pass ordinances to establish grades for the streets, gutters and side-
walks of the City, the width thereof and the material of which they shall
be built; and to make by-laws and to pass ordinances for causing the side-
walks along any public street or highway to be graded, curbed, paved,
repaved or improved at the cost and expense of the owners of the abutting
property which cost shall be a lien on the abutting property and recover-
able by action at law or as taxes are collected; provided that, before assess-
ing the costs of any such grading, curbing, paving, repaving or improving
on any property, the Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall give at least
ten days' notice in one or more newspapers published in the City of Salis-
bury of their intention to make such assessment and of the time and place
where objections thereto will be heard; and to make by-laws and pass
ordinances compelling by fines or otherwise the owners or proprietors of
any lot abutting on any public street or highway to grade, pave, repave,
curb or improve the sidewalk in front thereof; and to make by-laws and
pass ordinances for purchasing or condemning as hereinafter provided any
property for the purpose of laying out, opening, extending and making
any new streets or alleys, and for the purpose of altering, straightening,
widening, grading, improving or closing up, in whole or in part, any
existing street or alley, and for the removal of trees, posts and other
obstructions, and for laying out public squares and water-courses; and
shall have power to lay out, open, extend and make new streets or alleys,
and alter, straighten, widen, grade, improve, close up, in whole or in part,
any existing street or alley, and to remove trees, posts and other obstruc-
tions, and to lay out public squares and water-courses, and to maintain the
same; and the laying out, opening, extending, or making of any new street
or alley, and the altering, straightening, widening, grading, improving or
closing up, in whole or in part, of any existing street or alley, and the
removal of trees, posts and other obstructions, and the laying out of public
squares and water-courses, and the making, grading, paving, repaving,
curbing and guttering of streets and sidewalks shall be considered as pub-
lic improvements within the meaning of Section 309 of this subtitle.

1927, ch. 138, sec. 158E-2.

295. The Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall have the power to
regulate all subdivisions 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 subdivision 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 Salis-
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