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town taxes, and the faithful performance of such duties as may be imposed on him by the ordinances of said President and Commissioners.
139. The said Bailiff may enforce the payment of town taxes, in the same manner, and with the like effect, as Collector of State and County taxes may enforce the payment of State and County taxes.	Enforce pay- ment.
140. The President of the said Commissioners shall, in virtue of his office, have and exercise, within the limits of said Town all the jurisdiction and power of a Justice of the Peace, except as to the recovery of small debts; he may call upon any officer of said Town entrusted with the receipt and expenditures of public money, for a statement of his accounts as often as he shall see proper, he	Jurisdiction.
shall see that the ordinances are faithfully exe- cuted, and report to the Town Commissioners at their stated meetings the general state of the Town, and may call special meetings of the Com- missioners whenever he may deem proper.	Town Com- missioners.
141. And the said President and Commissioners may provide for the purchase of a lot and the erection thereon of a public building to be used as a Town Hall for the benefit of the citizens of said village; and the expense attending the purchase of said lot and erection of said building shall be levied upon the assessable property of said village in the same manner and collected as other town taxes are levied, assessed and collected.	Town Hall.
142. And be it enacted, That all fines imposed by said President and Commissioners shall be col- lected in the same manner as small debts.	Fines.
Sec. 2. And be it enacted, That this Act shall take effect from the date of its passage. Approved March 23, 1870.	In force.