ART. 21.] WASHINGTON COUNTY. 907

the owner and deducted from the rent then due or to become
due.

156. If any tenant or person having the care of any house, lot
or part of a lot, shall refuse or neglect to level, pave or mend the
footway in front of the same according to the directions of the
corporation, the said burgess and commissioners may contract to
have the same done, and may levy the same, with the costs, by
way of distress on such property.

157. The said burgess and commissioners may from time to
time make such by-laws and ordinances as they may deem expe-
dient for the comfort, health, convenience and prosperity of the
town, the prevention and removal of nuisances, preservation of
health, and suppression of vice and immorality.

158. They may lay an equal tax on the property within the
town to such amount as may from time to time be deemed neces-
sary, and may appoint a collector to collect the same, and pre-
scribe his term of office, responsibility and compensation, and
the said collector shall have the same power to distrain for the
taxes so levied as the collectors of county taxes have, and shall
collect and pay the same to the burgess and commissioners.

159. 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 performance of
his duty as treasurer, and he shall receive and pay away money
according to the ordinances of the corporation.

160. The said corporation shall not at any time issue any note,
certificate or other device, to be circulated as currency.

161. All fines and forfeitures imposed by the ordinances of the
corporation, shall be recoverable before the burgess or any jus-
tice of the peace; but no fine or forfeiture imposed under any
ordinance of said corporation shall exceed the sum of twenty
dollars.

162. Any person may take up and impound any swine or geese
found going at large in said town, belonging to the inhabitants
thereof, and the owner shall pay on reclaiming the same the sum
of twenty-five cents for each swine, and five cents for each goose,