ART. 10.] DORCHESTER COUNTY. 609

43. The commissioners may make such by-laws, not contrary
to law, for the regulation and good government of said town
and the inhabitants thereof, and to restrain all disorders and
disturbances and prevent and remove all nuisances, incon-
veniences and annoyances within said town, to prevent the run-
ning of horses and firing of guns in the streets, the burning of
chimneys in dry weather, the continuance of unsafe chimneys,
stoves or stove pipes, to make, repair and regulate footways, to
make and keep open drains or sewers, to extend the streets
or alleys and renew their boundaries, to regulate market days,
and such other things as they may deem proper, and may en-
force obedience to their by-laws by such fines, penalties and
forfeitures as they may deem reasonable, not exceeding eight
dollars for any one offence.

44. They may cause an assessment to be made from time to
time by some person, by them appointed, of all the property,
real and personal, within the town, and may, whenever they
may deem it necessary for any purpose connected with the
regulations and improvement of the town, levy upon the pro-
perty assessed such tax, not exceeding in any one year fifty
cents in the hundred dollars, as they may deem necessary.

45. Any person aggrieved by the assessment so made may,
within six weeks after the completion and return thereof, appeal
to the commissioners, who may make such alteration therein aa
they may deem just.

46. Whenever the said commissioners shall levy a tax on the
property in said town, they shall make out an alphabetical list
of the persons chargeable therewith, with the sums payable by
each annexed, and shall also annex thereto a warrant to the
bailiff to collect the said tax; and the bailiff, within ten days
after receiving such warrant and list, shall deliver to each person
therein named an account of the taxes payable by him, and unless
the said taxes shall be paid within twenty days after such account
shall have been rendered, the bailiff may collect the same by dis-
tress and sale of the goods and chattels of the delinquent; and
the bailiff shall, within two months after the receipt of the said
warrant and list, account for and pay the Bums collected to the
commissionerB, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars.

47. The tenant or occupant of any house or parcel of land in
said town shall be chargeable with the taxes thereon, and may