932 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 21.

320. The burgess and commissioners, or a majority of them,
may appoint a clerk, and prescribe his duties, and may allow
him such compensation as they may think proper.

: 321. The clerk shall enter all ordinances passed by the burgess
and commissioners in a book, to be kept by him for that purpose;

and they shall be open at all times for the inspection of any
person interested, and copies of all ordinances shall be put up in
the most public places in the town.

322. The burgess and commissioners may make such by-laws
and ordinances as they may deem expedient for the comfort,
health, convenience and prosperity of the town and its inhabit-
ants, for the prevention or removal of nuisances, the prevention.
and extinguishment of fires, the preservation of health, and
suppression of vice and immorality in the said town.

323. They may lay an equal tax on the property within the
limits of the town, to such an amount as may from time to time
be deemed necessary for the uses of the corporation, and appoint
a collector to collect the same, who shall have the same power
to collect and distrain therefor as the collectors of county taxes,
and who shall pay the same when collected to the burgess and
commissioners, and they may prescribe the term of office, re-
sponsibility and compensation of the said collector.

324. They may keep the streets and alleys in said town in
repair, and when they or a majority of them think expedient,
may provide for and direct the levelling and grading of the said
streets and alleys, or any of them, in whole or in part, and cause
bridges or culverts to be made over the water courses or hollows
in said streets or alleys, and crossing places of broad stone at
convenient points over the same.

325. They may as often as may be required, but not oftener
than once in each year, in addition to other town taxes, levy on
the taxable property in the town a sum not exceeding twenty-
five cents on every hundred dollars' worth of taxable property
in the town, to be set apart and expended under their direction
exclusively, to the repair and improvement of the streets; but
the usual levy or county tax for the same purpose in said town
shall still be continued.