934 WASHINGTON COUNTY. . [ART. 21.

clerk of the market, levy such taxes for the purpose as they
may deem proper.

331. No person shall raise or keep any hogs or geese within
said town except in enclosures, or suffer any hogs or geese to go
and remain at large therein; and if any hogs or geese of any
inhabitant of said town shall be found at large therein, any
person may kill or impound the same; and if impounded, the
person impounding shall immediately give notice by advertise-
ment set up at the most public places in the town, describing
such hogs or geese, and if the owner shall not within five days
thereafter prove his property therein and make compensation
for the injury which any inhabitant of said town may have
sustained by such hogs or geese being at large, to be ascertained
by two disinterested inhabitants of the town, and pay for every
hog twenty-five cents per day, and for every goose the sum of
six cents per day for every day such goose or hog may have
been impounded, the person so impounding may sell or kill the
same for his own benefit.

332. All fines and forfeitures imposed by the ordinances of the
burgess and commissioners of said town, shall be imposed by the
burgess of said town or by any justice of the peace for Wash-
ington county, upon a warrant to be issued by him against the
offender to any constable of said county; and the person con-
victed, in default of payment, may be committed to the jail of
the county until such fine or forfeiture be paid, unless discharged
under the next succeeding section.

333. The said burgess, or any justice of the peace of the
county, may order any person committed under the preceding
section to be discharged after the space of ten days from the
date of his commitment, upon satisfactory proof adduced before
him, upon affidavit or oral testimony under oath, that said person
is wholly unable to pay said fine and forfeiture and costs; Pro-
vided, that if the fine or forfeiture exceed the sum of five dollars,
the person committed shall not be discharged until after the ex-
piration of thirty days from the time of his commitment.

334. The said burgess shall have the same power to sum-
mon and enforce the attendance of witnesses as justices of the
peace.