EDWIN WARFIELD, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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without warrant all persons who, in his view, shall violate said

laws or ordinances, and shall receive the same fees for arrest

and execution of process issued by a justice as are allowed to

constables under the laws of this State.

SEC. 20. And be it enacted, That the treasurer shall be ap-

pointed from among the citizens of said town qualified to vote

Appointment
of treasurer.

for Mayor and Common Council, and before entering upon the

duties of his office he shall give bond to the Mayor and Common

Council, with good and sufficient surety or sureties to be ap-

proved by the said Mayor and Common Council in such penalty

as they shall prescribe, conditioned that he shall well and truly

pay over to his successors in office, or to the order of said

Mayor and Common Council, signed by their clerk and counter-

signed by the Mayor, all such moneys, and shall perform all

other duties of his office according to law and the ordinances

of said Mayor and Common Council ; he shall keep full and cor-

rect accounts of all moneys received by him, with the source

from which the same were received, and the dates of such re-

ceipts, and of the disbursements, and the persons to whom and

on what account the same were made; and the same person

may, in the discretion of the Mayor and Common Council, be

appointed clerk and treasurer.

SEC. 21, And be it enacted, That the Mayor and Common

Council shall not expend or contract to expend in any one

Limiting ex-
penditures.

year more money than the amount receivable from taxes and

other resources for that year.

SEC. 22. And be it enacted, That the Mayor and Common

Council may provide by ordinances for the immediate arrest,

Arrest without
warrant of

without a warrant, of any person found violating any town or-

lawbreakers.

dinance, and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxi-

cated, may confine said offender in some secure place until he

be sober, and may provide further for the confinement of any

person arrested if the time be unreasonable, as in the night,

whereby he cannot attend the justice until a reasonable hour

of the succeeding morning, when he shall be taken before a

justice of the peace and dealt with according to the nature of

the offense ; provided, that such person so arrested may deposit

with the bailiff a sum of money to cover any fine and costs that

may be assessed against him for the violation of said ordinance,

or give security for the same acceptable to the bailiff.

SEC. 23. And be it enacted, That the Mayor of said town,

by virtue of his office, shall have and exercise all the police

Mayor to act

as police jus-

powers of a conservator of the peace at common law ; and the

tice.