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collect the same from the owner or deduct the same from the
rent -due or to become due.

48. The said commissioners may assess and levy a tax not
exceeding two dollars each for every dog belonging to or kept
by any of the inhabitants of the town, to be recovered and col-
lected as other taxes, and may compel the bailiff to kill any dog
within the town whose owner cannot be ascertained, or whose
ostensible owner shall evade the payment of the tax.

49. The said commissioners may cause the streets in said town
to be paved whenever and in such manner as they may think
proper.

50. They may require the owner of any property in said town
to pave such part or parts of the street as may border on his
ground, and if the owner of any property shall refuse or neglect
to have the same paved for a longer time than three months after
he shall have been required to pave the same, the commissioners
may have the same paved at his expense, and may collect the
coat of such pavement from such owner in the same manner as
other debts of like amount are collected.

51. If any ground bordering on any street ordered to be paved
shall be leased, the lessee or tenant may pave said street, or pay
for the same if done by the commissioners, and the same shall be
allowed in part payment of the rent due and to become due to
the owner.

52. If the tenant shall refuse to pave such street, or to pay
therefor, the commissioners may, after throe weeks' notice in
some paper published in Cambridge of the time, place, manner
and' terms of sale, sell for cash at public sale so much of the said
ground as may be necessary for the payment of the costs and
charges incurred by the commissioners; or the said commis-
sioners may collect such costs and charges as other debts of a
like amount.

53. The commissioners may appoint one or more overseers of
the streets, lanes and alleys in said town, who shall, for neglect
of duty, be liable to be proceeded against, fined and punished, in
the same manner as supervisors of roads in said county, and who
shall repair said streets, lanes and alleys under the direction and
control of the said commissioners.