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JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR, 217

erty and persons from violence, danger or destruction and may impose fines, penalties or forfeitures for the breach thereof, but no ordinance of said corporation shall impose a fine, penalty or forfeiture for any offence of more than ten dollars, and they may provide by ordinance for the immediate arrest without warrant, of any person violating any town ordinance by riotous or disorderly conduct, or driving or riding through the streets, when the delay necessary to the issuing of a warrant would be dangerous to the peace and quiet of the town, or the lives, limbs or property of its citizens, and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxicated so as to render it unsafe to permit him to drive or ride through the streets, shall provide for the removal of the horse, or horse and vehicle without the limits of the town, or for the deposit thereof in some place of safety until the of-

 

fender shall be sober; provided that nothing herein contained shall authorize the passage of any by-law or advertisement in conflict with the constitution and laws of the State.

Proviso.

44. The president and commissioners shall have power to build a lockup or jail in said town for the purpose of confining therein such persons as they may be authorized to commit thereto by the laws of this State, or the ordinances of said town.

Build Jail.

45. The president and commissioners shall have power to levy and collect taxes in said town, not exceeding in any one year thirty cents in the hundred dollars on the assessable property of said town. They shall once in every five years or oftener if they think proper appoint an assessor who shall under oath value and assess the property in said town, in the

Levy and collect taxes.

same manner and with like authority as county assessors proceed to assess in the county; provided, that in assessing any of the lands within the limits of said town which may be occupied and used as farms, or may be apart or parts of farms, such lands shall be valued and assessed as lots of five acres of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon and shall not be valued and assessed by the number of acres therein. If any owner of property assessed

Proviso.

in said town shall feel aggrieved by the assessment

Aggrieved.



 

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