ART. 21.] WASHINGTON COUNTY. 917

its inhabitants; the prevention or removal of nuisances, preser-
vation of health, and suppression of vice and immorality in said
town.

220. They may lay an equal tax on the property in the town,
to such amount as they may from time to time deem necessary
for the purposes of the corporation.

221. They may appoint a collector to collect said tax, and may
fix his term of office, responsibility, and compensation; and the
said collector shall have the same power to distrain for said tax
as the collectors of county taxes, and shall pay the same to the
said burgess and commissioners.

222. The burgess shall be treasurer of the corporation, and
shall give bond thereto, 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 all moneys
agreeably to the ordinances of the corporation.

223. The burgess and commissioners may direct, by ordinance,
all or any of the footways in said town to be paved or repaired,
with any materials they may think proper, at the expense of the
proprietors of the different lots before which the same shall be
done.

224. If the owner of any lot, in front of which such paving or
repairing shall be directed to be done, shall not reside in said
town, the tenant or person occupying or having charge of said
lot shall cause the same to be done, and the money expended
thereon by such person, under the ordinance of the corporation,
shall be allowed by the owner of such lot, and deducted from the
rent, then duo or to become due; and ,if such owner or tenant
shall refuse or neglect to repair or pave said footway, the bur-
gess and commissioners may cause the same to be done, and
collect the expense thereof, with costs, by distress and sale of
such lot.

225. All fines and forfeitures, under the ordinances of said cor-
poration, shall be recoverable, before the burgess or before a
justice of the peace, as small debts; but no fine or forfeiture shall
exceed the sum of twenty dollars for any one offence.