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.person interested; and copjes of all ordinances shall be put up in
the most public places of said town.

201. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have
power to make all such by-laws and ordinances as they may deem
wise, expedient and equitable, for the comfort, health, convenience
and prosperity of the said town and its inhabitants; for the pre-
vention or removal of nuisances; the preservation of health, and
suppression of vice and immorality; to prevent the firing of guns
or crackers, horae racing, cock fighting, and all other such im-
proper practices within the limits of the town.

202. They shall have power to have an assessment made of
the value of all the property within the taxable limits of the
town, and to lay an equal tax on. the same to such amount as
may from time to time be necessary for the uses of the corpora-
tion; which tax shall be collected by the burgess, who shall
have the same power to distrain therefor as the collectors of
county taxes, and they shall allow the said burgess for collecting
the said tax and the performances of his other duties, such com-
pensation as they teay deem proper.

203. They shall have power to pass all ordinances necessary
to have the streets, lanes and alleys graded, and curbstones
planted, and to establish new streets, lanes and alleys, with the
consent of two-thirds of the owners of the property fronting on
tb® same, and to have the streets, lanes and alleys repaired.

204. They may direct by ordinance all or any of the footways
within the taxable limits of the town, to be laid off, levelled and
paved or repaired with such materials as they may deem best,
at the expense of the proprietors of the different lots in front of
which the same shall be done;

205. If the owner of any house, lot or part of a lot where such
levelling, paving or repairing shall be directed, shall not reside
in said town, the tenant occupying the same, or who shall have
the charge thereof, shall cause the same to be done, and the
money expended, by such tenant or other person in and about
the said worfe is obedience to the ordinance of the burgess and
coiaiBisBiOBerB/'BhaIl be allowed by the owner, and deducted
frem the rent dne or to become due.