PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1491

insure the observance of such 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 penalties thereunto affixed,
they may affix thereto such reasonable fines, not exceeding fifty
dollars in any case, as to them may appear right; and in
default of the payment of any fine imposed, they may provide
for the imprisonment of the offender for a period not exceeding
thirty days, or until the fine is paid.

1890, ch. 546.

493. The council may, whenever as often as they may deem
the public convenience requires it, cause an assessment to be
made of real and personal property within the corporate limits
of said town, subject to assessment for county or State taxes,
and they may prescribe the manner in which such assessment
shall be made, and provide for adjusting all differences in
relation to such assessment and do all other things necessary
for making such assessment; provided, such assessment shall
not exceed the assessment for State and county purposes; and
the council may levy an annual tax on the assessable property
within 'the corporate limits of said town not exceeding in any
one year sixty cents in the hundred dollars worth of assessable
property.

P. L. L. 1888, art. 16, sec. 191.

494. Any person may appeal from the valuation made by
the assessor to the council at their next regular or quarterly
meeting, and said council shall remain in session as long as
may be reasonable to hear and determine such appeals, and
shall give reasonable notice of such meeting, and may abate or
increase the assessment as may seem just.

1898, ch. 354, sec. 192.

495. Whenever the council shall levy a tax, which said tax
shall not exceed sixty cents on the one hundred dollars in
any one year, it shall cause to be made out a list of the per-
sons charged therewith, and shall cause to be affixed thereto
the respective sums to be collected from each person, and a
warrant to the bailiff to collect the same, and the taxes levied
by the council shall be due as soon as they are levied; shall
bear interest on and after the first day of January next suc-
ceeding the day of levy, and they shall be deemed in arrear on
and after the first day of January next succeeding the date of
their levy.

Ibid. sec. 193,

496. The bailiff shall, immediately after the receipt of
such list and warrant, proceed to collect said taxes, and shall,