1978 ARTICLE 8.

P. L. L., 1888, Art 8, sec. 344. 1880, ch. 435.

193. If said inquisition be set aside, the said court may direct another
to be taken in the same manner as the first.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 145. 1880, ch. 435.

194. Every inquisition shall describe the property taken or the bounds
of the land condemned, and the quantity or duration of the interest in
the same therein valued; and such valuation, when paid or tendered to
the owner of the property, or his legal representatives, or in case no dam-
ages shall be assessed, the confirmation of said inquisition shall entitle
the President and Commissioners to the estate, use and interest in the
same so valued, for the purposes aforesaid, as fully as if the same had
been conveyed by the owner; and the valuation, if not received from the
President and Commissioners when tendered, may at any time thereafter
be received without costs by the owner or his legal representatives.

1927, ch. 419, sec. 145A.

195. The President and Commissioners, in the corporate name, shall
have the right to hold, manage, lease, purchase, sell and convey, real estate
of any class or description, or* the use of the town, whether the same be
within or without the corporate limits thereof; and the ownership by pur-
chase, or otherwise, of any real estate now situate beyond the limits of
the town, and standing now in the corporate name of the town, or in-
tended, so to stand, is hereby ratified and confirmed and the title thereto
in the town is hereby confirmed and made valid to the same extent as if
the town were expressly authorized by law to acquire the same at the
time the purchase thereof was made; and the town is hereby authorized
to acquire by purchase or otherwise, including condemnation, lands, tene-
ments and hereditaments, within or without the town limits, for any pub-
lic use of the town which said public use may include parks, wharves,
firehouse site, council hall site, or other real estate holdings which may
be of benefit to the corporate community.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 8, sec. 146. 1880, ch. 435. 1890, ch. 623, sec. 146.
1896. ch. 463, sec. 146. 1920, ch. 116.

196. The said Board shall have power to levy and collect taxes an-
nually in the town (not exceeding in a,ny one year sixty cents on the one
hundred dollars) on the assessable property of the said town; and said
board shall have power to pass ordinances regulating the time and man-
ner of payment of said taxes, and to provide for an early payment of the
same by making provisions for the allowance of such discounts as may
be necessary thereto; and once in every ten years or oftener if they shall
think proper, they shall appoint an assessor, who shall under oath assess
and value the property in the town in the same manner and with like
authority as county assessors; and the said town treasurer shall with the
authority given in this section, annually assess and add to the assessable

*"For" evidently intended.