PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1385

closing up in whole or in part any existing street or alley and
for laying out public squares, parks, drains, sewers or water
courses; to establish and regulate a station house or lockup for
the temporary confinement for violators of the law and ordi-
nances of the town; to levy, to tax and impose a license upon
dogs, and to prohibit animals or fowls running at large; to reg-
ulate and control all offensive trades, manufactures and traffic
in offensive fertilizers or other commodities, and prohibit hog
pens and slaughter houses within the town limits; to control,
by ordinance, the mode of constructing privies and sinks and
the manner of disposing of offal and waste products, and, in
general, to pass such ordinances as they may deem proper, nec-
essary and beneficial to the town; and for the purpose of carry-
ing out the foregoing powers, and for preservation of the clean-
liness, 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, or cause to be suppressed, abated
or discontinued, all nuisances within the corporate limits of
said town, they may pass all ordinances or by-laws from time
to time necessary; and to insure the observance of such ordi-
nance, 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 thereon to be affixed, they may affix thereto such
reasonable fines, not exceeding fifty ($50) 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 offenders for a period not exceeding thirty days, or until
the fine is paid; provided, that no ordinance shall be adopted

except by yea and nay vote, and the names of the members of
the council voting for and against the same shall be entered in
the minutes. The Mayor, and council shall have power, in
their discretion, to appropriate money to aid in promoting the

efficiency of the public schools located within the limits of the
town.

1906, ch. 292, sec. 14.

220. The fiscal year shall begin on the first day of July
of each year and shall be known by the name of the calendar
year in which it begins.

Ibid, sec, 15.

221. As soon as may be after the passage of this act and

on or before the 15th day of March in each succeeding year,
the council shall by resolution appoint one or more persons
whose duty it shall be either to make a new assessment of all
real and personal property within the limits' of the town accord-
ing to such regulations as the council may prescribe, or to raise