5102 ARTICLE 23.

bury, and said approval stamped thereon. The Mayor and Council of
Salisbury shall have power to prescribe rules and regulations governing
the filing of plats or plans for such subdivision and requiring all proper-
ties so subdivided 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, public high-
ways or sidewalks so laid out in any subdivision.

1908, ch. 310, sec. 158F (p. 1120).

296. The Mayor and Council of Salisbury shall have power to provide
by ordinance for the establishment and change from time to time of the
grade lines of any street, lane, alley or part thereof now or hereafter
marked, located or laid out; to provide by ordinance for grading, gravel-
ing, shelling, macadamizing, paving and curbing or for regrading, re-
graveling, reshelling, remacadamizing, repaving and recurbing of any
street, lane or alley in said city or part thereof now condemned, ceded,
dedicated or opened as a public highway, or which may hereafter be con-
demned, ceded, dedicated, opened, widened, straightened or altered ac-
cording to the laws and ordinances regulating same, and also for assessing
the cost of any such work not exceeding one-half the cost upon any prop-
erty binding upon such street, lane, alley or highway or part thereof,
according to the front foot rule of apportionment of the cost of improve-
ment or equitable basis as it may determine, and for the collection of said
assessment as other city taxes are collected or in such manner as it may
prescribe, either before or after the work shall have been done. To pro-
vide by ordinance for grading, macadamizing, paving or curbing or for
regrading, regraveling, reshelling, remacadamizing, repaving or recurbing
of any street, lane, alley or highway or part thereof in said city, whenever
the owners of a majority of the front feet or property binding on such
street, lane, alley or highway or part thereof shall apply for the same upon
terms and under conditions to be prescribed in said ordinance, and for
the assessment in any such case of the whole or any part of the costs of
such work pro rata according to the front foot rule of apportionment of
the cost of the improvements or equitable basis upon all abutting property
binding upon such street, lane or alley, and for the collection of such
assessment as other city taxes are collected, or in such manner as it may
prescribe. In any and all cases where any street, lane, alley or part there-
of in the city has been graded, paved or curbed, or regraded, repavecl or
recurbed under any ordinance which provided for assessing of any portion
or the whole of the costs of such improvement upon the property binding
upon such street, lane or alley or part thereof, and such assessment or any
part thereof remaining unpaid, it shall be lawful for the city to provide by
ordinance for the levy and collection in such manner as it may deem
proper of a tax upon all property binding on any street, lane or alley
or part thereof which may have been so improved to the extent that such
property shall have been specially benefited by such improvement; pro-
vided, that no property upon which the assessment originally made for
its share of the cost of such improvement shall have been paid shall be