JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

pursuing like occupations, and to prescribe their compensa-
tion; to license, tax and regulate all inns, taverns, livery and
sales stables, hotels, restaurants or other places used or kept
for public entertainment; to license, tax and regulate the
selling or giving away of any spirituous or vinous or malt
liquors, and to license all places where such liquors or either
of them are to be used on the premises, whether given away
or sold, and all such last-named places shall pay a license fee
not to exceed fifty dollars per year to said town; to tax,
license and regulate second-hand and junk stores, and to for-
bid their purchasing or receiving from minors any article
whatever without the consent of their parents or guardians;
to license, tax, regulate and prohibit the keeping or harboring
of dogs; to license, tax and regulate wheeled vehicles; pro-
vided, that the funds derived from all license shall be applied
only to the maintenance and repair of streets and alleys; to
license, tax and regulate branch stores or establishments and
all other concerns established in said city for temporary
business only; to license and tax fire insurance companies;
provided, that all fire insurance companies doing business in
the town of Union Bridge shall pay a license fee of not less
than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars per annum;

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to levy and collect a tax on the assessable property of
said city for the general purposes of said corporation,
not exceeding in any one year fifty cents on each one hun-
dred dollars' worth of said assessable property. To levy and
collect such a tax on the assessable property of said city as
may be necessary to pay the interest on the city bonds, and to

Levy and
Collect tax on
property.

provide a sinking fund for the redemption thereof at maturity.
To enforce their ordinances by fines and penalties and
imprisonment in the city station-house or such other building
as may by ordinance be provided for, and may provide for a
chain gang and the working out of fines and penalties on the
streets and highways of the city.

GENERAL ASSESSMENT.

Enforce
ordinances.

Sec. 182. The said Town Council shall from time to time
cause an assessment to be made of all the property, real, per-
sonal or otherwise, and securities liable to State and county
taxes, by two assessors appointed by them, and levy thereon a
tax not exceeding in any one year fifty cents (50 cents) on
every one hundred dollars' worth of assessable property for
general purposes. They shall also, in the month of October
of each year, appoint two assessors to assess any property in
said town liable to taxation, and which has been omitted from

General
assessment.