26 ALLEGANY COUNTY. [ART. 1.

the comfort, health, convenience, and prosperity of the town and
its inhabitants, for the prevention or removal of nuisances, pre-
servation of health, and suppression of vice and immorality
within the town.

81. They may lay an equal tax on the property in the town to
such an amount as may from time to time be deemed necessary,
which shall bo collected by a collector by them appointed, and
paid to the said commissioners, and the said collector shall have
the same power to distrain for said tax as the collectors of county
taxes.

82. They shall fix the term of office, responsibility and com-
pensation of said collector.

83. They may annually appoint a bailiff, who shall preserve
the peace and good order of the town, and for that purpose shall
have all the powers of a constable.

84. They may lay a tax on all dogs kept within the town, and
may collect the same as other taxes.

85. No owner or occupant of any dwelling house, erected in
said town before the first day of June, in the year eighteen
hundred and forty-two, shall be liable to any suit, presentment,
or prosecution in consequence of such dwelling house, or any
porch, portico, or other appurtenance thereto, standing or being,
in whole or in part, on the public grounds in said town.

86. The owner of any dwelling house in said town, which
may have been built before the date mentioned in the preceding
section, and on a plan which renders it necessary or convenient
to have attached thereto a porch, portico, or other appurtenance,
which will, if built, be on the public ground, may erect or attach
to such dwelling house such porch, portico, or other appurte-
nance; Provided, the same shall not occupy in width more than
the general average of such porches and porticoes in said town.

87. All fines and forfeitures under the ordinances of said cor-
poration, shall be recoverable before the president thereof, or any
justice of the peace, as small debts.

88. The said corporation shall not issue any device, token, note,
certificate or evidence of debt to be used as currency.