necessary to accomplish the purposes aforesaid:
which tax shall be collected and paid to the President
and Commissioners by the collector by them ap-
pointed, who shall have the same power to dis-
train therefor and sell said distraint after five
day» notice by public advertisement set up in said

town; provided, that the tax shall not exceed
twenty cents in the hundred dollars of the taxable
property of said town for any one year, and the said
Commissioners shall fix the term of office, amount
of bond and compensation of such Collector.

Proviso.

Sec. 11. And be it enacted, That the said Com-
missioners, or a majority of them, shall have full
power and authority annually to appoint one or
two Bailiffs, whose duty it shall be to preserve the
peace and good order of said town, and to perform
such other duties as may be assigned him or them
by said Commissioners, or a majority of them, and
for this purpose he or they are hereby vested with
the same power and authority as any constable
may now have under the laws of this State, ex-
cept such as relate to the service of civil process
or collection of debts, but may serve any process
for the collection of fines and forfeitures aforesaid.

Bailiffs to be
appointed.

Sec. 12. And be it enacted, That the said Com-
missioners, or a majority of them, shall have full
power and authority to straighten and widen old
streets and to lay out and grade new ones when in
their discretion the same may be considered neces-
sary, and they shall have full power to provide for
the payment of damages and expenses incurred by
widening or opening the streets aforesaid by levy-
ing and assessing the same generally upon the
whole assessable property of said town or upon the
property of persons benefitted thereby.

Power to lay-
out, straighten
and widen
streets,

Sec. 13. And be it enacted, That nothing herein
contained shall be so construed as to authorize the
corporation hereby created to issue any device,
token, note, certificate or evidence of debt to be
used as currency, and the General Assembly re-
serves the right to amend or repeal this charter
when the same shall be deemed advisable.

Banking pri-
vileges prohib-
ited

Sec. 4. And be it enacted, That this shall take
effect from its passage.

In force.