PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1205

gers and travelers; to regulate and license auctioneers who cry
sales on the public streets j provided no greater sum than one
hundred dollars be charged for any one license. The said com-
missioners shall impose a license of one hundred dollars per
annum upon all saloons, hotels, taverns, restaurant and all other
places where malt, spirituous and fermented liquors and lager
beer are sold, and they are given full power and authority to
pass such ordinances as they may deem necessary for the regu-
lation and control of the traffic in said liquors within said town,
and to regulate and control all offensive trades, manufactures
and traffic in offensive or dangerous materials, or commodities,
within the limits; they shall also have power to provide for the
codification of all ordinances, which may hereafter be passed;
and for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers, and
for the preservation of the cleanliness, help, peace and good
order of the community, and for the protection of the lives and
property of the citizens and to suppress, abate or discontinue
all nuisances within the corporate and sanitary limits of said
town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time
necessary, and to the observance of said ordinances, in addition
to the action of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist
in such cases by law for the recovery of the penalty thereto
affixed, they may affix thereto such reasonable fines, not exceed-
ing fifty dollars in any case, as to them may appear right; and
in default of the payment of any fine imposed, they may pro-
vide for the imprisonment of the offender for a period not
exceeding twenty days, or until the fine be paid. Instead of
the aforesaid penalties, it shall be lawful in case of the convic-
tion of any person for vagrancy to sentence such person to hard
work on the streets of said town for a period not exceeding ten
days.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners shall
have power to lay an equal tax on the property within the lim-
its of said town, to such an amount each year not exceeding the
sum of fifty cents on each hundred dollars' worth of property
as may be deemed necessary for the government of said town,
which taxes so levied and assessed shall be collected promptly
by the Bailiff of said town, and by said Bailiff paid over as
collected, or within five days thereafter, to the treasurer of said
town; and the Bailiff of said town shall have the same power to
distrain for taxes as the collector of public county taxes has to
distrain for the same; and the said Commissioners shall fix the
amount of bond rate of compensation, and prescribe the duties
respectively of the said Bailiff and Treasurer on all property
within the limits of Barton, or they may have a situs by reason