ART. 21.] WASHINGTON COUNTY. 893

Son interested, and copies of all ordinances shall be put up in the
most public places in said town.

70. The burgess and commissioners shall cause the footways
of the town to be graded so that citizens of the town, who may
wish to pave the same, can see where such paving shall be
made.

71. They may make such by-laws and ordinances as they may
from time to time deem expedient for the comfort, health, conve-
nience and prosperity of the town and its inhabitants; for the
prevention and removal of nuisances, the preservation of health,
and the suppression of vice and immorality within the town.

72. They may lay an ad valorem tax upon the property within
the town, not exceeding twenty-five cents on every hundred dol-
lars' worth of taxable property in any one year, and may appoint
a collector to collect the same, and fix his term of office, respon-
sibility and compensation.

73. The said collector shall collect the taxes levied by the cor-
poration, and shall have the same power to distrain for the same
as the collectors of county taxes, and he shall pay the said taxes
when collected to the burgess and commissioners.

74. The burgess shall be treasurer of the corporation, and shall
give bond to the corporation, with security, to be approved by
the commissioners, or a majority of them, in such penalty as they
shall prescribe, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties
as treasurer, and he shall receive and pay away agreeably to the
ordinances of said corporation.

75. He shall see that all ordinances of the corporation are
faithfully executed, and shall, in virtue of his office, have and
exercise within the said town all the jurisdiction and powers of
a justice of the peace, except as to the recovery of small debts,
and shall report annually to the commissioners, during the first
two days of their session, the general condition of the town;

with an accurate account of the money received and expended, to
be published for the information of the citizens.

76. No fine or forfeiture imposed under any ordinance of said
town shall exceed the sum of twenty dollars for any one offehca,
and all such fines and forfeitures shall bo recoverable before a