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such work done in obedience to the ordinances of the corporation, the
burgess and commissioners may contract, on reasonable terms, for such
work, and recover the expense thereof, with costs, by distress on the
property.

1910, ch. 70, sec. 123. 1918 Code, sec. 178.

168. The burgess shall appoint, with the consent and approval of the
commissioners, a town constable, who within the limits of the corporation
shall have all the powers of a constable, except in civil process; he shall
also appoint, with the consent and approval of the commissioners, a town
treasurer, who shall give such bond to the corporation as shall be fixed
by ordinance, to whom all public moneys shall be paid by the persons and

officers authorized to collect the same, and by whom all debts and salaries
clue from the corporation and claims against it shall be paid, but only on
the order of the board approved by the burgess or over his veto, as pro-

vided by Section 173 of this subtitle, and he shall keep an accurate account
of all public moneys received and disbursed by him and report to the com-
missioners at each regular meeting of the board the financial condition of
the town, and ten days before the annual election he shall make a general
statement to the commissioners of all the public moneys received and

disbursed during the preceding year, which shall be published by the
commissioners five days before the said annual election in some news-
paper published in the town or by typewritten copies set up at not less
than four of the most public places in the said town, and the burgess shall
also appoint, with the consent and approval of the commissioners, a col-
lector of taxes imposed by the corporation, who shall have power to collect
the same by distraint upon either real or personal property, and the term
of office of the said constable, the said town treasurer and the said tax
collector, shall be one year, unless sooner removed as provided in Section
173 of this subtitle, and the compensation of each shall be allowed and
shall be fixed by ordinance.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 124. 1918 Code, sec. 179.

169. The said collector, before making any distress for taxes, shall
leave with the party by whom the taxes are to be paid, or at his usual
plaice of abode, or on the property, if the party does not reside in the
town, a statement showing the aggregate amount of taxes due thereon,
with a notice annexed to said statement, that unless the taxes so due are
paid within thirty days thereafter, the collector will proceed by way of
distress or execution to collect the same.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 11, sec. 125. 1918 Code, sec. 180.

170. If, after giving thirty days notice, as directed in the preceding
section, the said taxes are not paid, the collector shall levy upon either
the real or personal property of the delinquent, and sell the same at public
sale, either on the premises or at some public place in said town, having
first given at least ten days notice, in writing or print, of the time and
place of such sale in a number of the most public places in said town.