ODEN BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 461
corporation, to be by them appropriated for the
improvement of roads within the limits of said
corporation.
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Sec. 20. And be it enacted, That the Commis-
sioners may by ordinance provide for levying and
collecting annually a tax of fifty cents on every
dog, and one dollar on every hitch, within said
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Tax on dogg.
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town; and the killing of every dog and bitch,
whose owner shall refuse to pay said tax, or who
shall fail to do so within one month from the time
he or she shall be called upon to do so.
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Killed if not
paid.
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Sec. 21. And be it enacted, That the Commis-
sioners may, by ordinance, prohibit the firing of
guns and pistols in said town, and may prohibit
the tumultuous and irregular meetings of idle and
dissolute persons, and shall give general directions
to the bailiff to disperse the same by fair and law-
ful means.
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Prohibitory
law.
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Sec. 22. And be it enacted, That said Commis-
sioners may pass ordinances to prevent horses and
swine from running at large within the limits of
said town.
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Not to run at
large.
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Sec. 23. And be it enacted, That no person shall
permit his or her hog or hogs to run at large
within the limits of said town, and if any hog or
hogs shall be found running at large therein, the
bailiff shall forthwith seize and impound the same,
and shall immediately give notice thereof by pub-
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Bailiff to im-
pound.
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lic advertisement, and if the owner shall not,
within three days thereafter, pay said bailiff fifty
cents for every day of impounding any hog, the
bailiff shall sell the same at public sale, and after
deducting one dollar for every hog, shall pay the
purchase money to the Treasurer of said town.
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Penalty.
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Sec. 24. And be it enacted, That on the same
day on which Commissioners are to be collected
under this Act, and on every first Monday in
April in each and every year thereafter, one per-
son, a legal voter in said town, shall be elected by
a majority of the voters of said town as Treasurer
of said Corporation, whose duty it shall be to keep
an account of the receipts and disbursements of
the funds of the Corporation in a well-bound
book, to be provided by the Commissioners for
that purpose, and shall annually render to the
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Election of
Treasurer.
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