ART. 10.] DORCHESTER COUNTY. 525.

health and convenience of the town and its inhabitants, for the
prevention and removal of nuisances, and the suppression of vice
and immorality within said town, and may lay out and widen
streets in said town; but shall not extend the width of any
street to more than forty feet; and all damages done to the
citizens of said town by the opening and extension of streets,.
shall be paid by the corporation; and it shall not be lawful for
the clerk of the Circuit Court for Dorchester county to grant
any applicant or applicants a license to retail any spirituous,
distilled or malt liquors within the limits of said town, unless
the applicant or applicants shall exhibit to said clerk the recom-
mendation of a majority of the commissioners of said town
obtained from them in town meeting assembled and attested by
their clerk; and if any such license is granted without said
recommendation and any person shall retail said liquors in
virtue thereof, he, she or they shall be subject to the game
penalties as are now imposed by law for selling without license.

142*. A public lot may be laid out in said town or its vicinity
for the use of said town by John B. Leckie, Dr. James T. Jacobs
and John. Dean, or a majority of them, and they shall have the
same powers and duties conferred in the Act of the General
Assembly of eighteen hundred and forty-nine, chapter three
hundred and twenty-two, or if already laid out as therein
directed, the said lot is vested in said corporation.

143. The said commissioners may levy a tax on the property
in said town, to such amount as they may from time to time
deem necessary, and shall appoint a collector to collect the
same, who shall have power to distrain therefor, as collectors of
county faxes, and the said commissioners shall fix the term of
office and compensation of such collector.

144. They may appoint a bailiff annually, who shall preserve
the peace and good order of the town, and shall have the same
power within said town, as a constable.

145. The said commissioners shall not issue any device, scrip,
token, note, certificate or evidence of debt, to be used as cur".
rency.

146*. All fines and forfeitures imposed by the ordinances of
said corporation, shall be recoverable before any justice of the
peace, as small debts are recoverable.