KENT COUNTY. 3207

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 129. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 103.

201. Each town commissioner, before performing any of his duties,
shall make oath before some justice of the peace in said county that he will
truly, faithfully and without partiality execute all the duties appertaining
to his office, which affidavit shall be attached to said certificate of election
and filed among the papers of said town.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 15, sec. 130. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 104.

202. The town commissioners shall have power to appoint a clerk and
treasurer, and prescribe their duties and compensation, and to appoint one
or more police officers, and prescribe their obligations, duties and pay; and
said town commissioners shall have power to confer authority on said
police to perform all the duties of a constable, except so far as they relate
to debts and other civil process, other than debts due on any fine, penalty
or tax which said town commissioners may have power to impose.

P. L. L. 1888, Art. 15, sec. 131. 1860, Art. 14, sec. 105.

203. They shall have power, upon the return of a jury as hereinafter
provided, to open and lay out any street, lane or alley in said town which
they may deem necessary for the convenience of the citizens of said town,
and to condemn the same to public use; but before the said town commis-
sioners shall so condemn any land or property to public use, they shall
apply to the county commissioners, who shall appoint a jury of twelve
discreet, impartial and disinterested voters of the third election district
of said county, which jury shall view the land and property in said town
and assess the advantages and damages, in money, by such proposed streets,
lanes or alleys, to the different persons owning property in said town, and
make a return to the said town commissioners, of the money value of such
advantages and damages; and upon said return, the town commissioners
shall have the power to assess and levy upon the taxable property of said
town such a sum as may be necessary to open such streets, lanes or alleys,
and for the purpose of making other improvements in said town; but such
levy shall not be more than twenty-five cents in the hundred dollars of
assessable property for any one year.

1906, ch. 361.

204. The clerk or treasurer to the board of commissioners of Galena
may be the collector of taxes for said town, with the same authority and
power to receive and collect the taxes that may be annually levied by said
commissioners by distress or levy, and sale of either real or personal prop-
erty that collectors of State or county taxes now possess; provided, such
levy and sale be conducted in accordance with the same provisions of law
that control and direct the collection of State and county taxes of delin-
quents in Kent county.

1922, ch. 502.

205. The Clerk of the County Commissioners of Kent County is
authorized and required under the penalty of one hundred dollars ($100),