EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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hacking, carriages, cars or other vehicles used in the town

for carriage of passengers and travelers ; to regulate and license

auctioneers who cry sales on the public streets; provided

that no greater sum than one hundred dollars be charged

for any one license; and to regulate and control all offensive

trades, manufacture, and traffic in offensive or dangerous

materials or commodities within the limits; they shall also

have power to provide for the codification of all ordinances

which may hereafter be passed ; and for the purpose of carry-

To suppress

ing out the foregoing powers and for the preservation of the

all nuisances.

cleanliness, health, peace and good order of the community

and for the protection of the lives and property of the citizens,

and to suppress, abate or discontinue all nuisances within the

corporate and sanitary limits of said town, they may pass

all ordinances or by-laws from time to time necessary; and

to the observance of said ordinancess, in addition to the action

of debt, or such other civil remedies as may exist in such

cases by law for the recovery of the penalties thereto affixed,

they may fix thereto such reasonable fines not exceeding

fifty dollars in any case as to them may appear right, and

in default of the payment of any fine imposed, they may

provide for the imprisonment of the offender for a period not

exceeding twenty days or until the fine be paid. Instead of

the aforesaid penalties, it shall be lawful in case of the con-

viction of any person for vagrancy, to sentence such person

Vagrants to,

to hard work on the streets of said town for a period not

work on
streets.

exceeding ten days.

SEC. 9. And be it enacted, That the Commissioners shall

have power to lay an equal tax on the property within the

limits of said town to such an amount each year not ex-

ceeding fifty cents on each hundred dollars' worth of property,

as may be deemed necessary for the government of said town,

Taxes levied

which taxes so levied and assessed shall be collected promptly

to be collected

by the bailiff of said town and by said bailiff paid over as

by bailiff.

collected, or within five days thereafter, to the treasurer of

said town; and the bailiff of said town shall have the same

power to distrain for taxes as the collector of public county

taxes has to distrain for the same: and the said Commis-

sioners shall fix the amount of bond rate of compensation,

and prescibe the duties respectively of said bailiff and treas-

urer on all property within the limits of Barton, or they may

have a situs by reason of the residences of the owner therein

except for municipal purposes, as hereinafter provided, shall

be taxed, and the assessment for town purposes shall be

the same as that for State and county purposes.