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of said town, and shall have power to require any person so offending to
give security to keep the peace, or in default thereof may commit said per-
son to the county jail for not more than thirty days, or may, for the com-
mission of said offenses, impose a fine on such person of not more than five
dollars; and such person, in default of payment thereof, may be com-
mitted to the county jail for a period of not more than thirty davs.

1908, ch. 171, sec. 17 (p. 890). 1918, ch. 8. 1922, ch. 214.

351. The said corporation shall have the power to levy and collect taxes
in said town not exceeding the rate of one dollar on the hundred dollars,
in any one year, on all assessable property in said town, on the same basis
of assessment as the said property shall for said year be assessed for state
and county purposes; provided, that all property in said corporate limits
used only for agricultural purposes shall only be assessed as such agricul-
tural property and not as town lots. On the first day of October in each
year taxes shall be deemed to be in arrears and interest shall be charged
and collected from that date until paid; and immediately after the first
day of October, the collector of taxes shall deliver to each delinquent who
has not prior thereto received the same, an account of his assessment and
the taxes and interest due thereon, with a notice and warning to said de-
linquent thereto attached, that unless payment be made in full within
thirty days from the delivery of said notice, the same will be collected by
process of law; and the said collector may at any time after the first day
of November proceed to seize, levy upon and sue the property of said de-
linquent, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay said taxes with
interest and costs thereon, and on the first day of December of each year
the collector shall immediately proceed to collect all unpaid tax bills by
seizing, levying upon, advertising and sueing said property, or so much
thereof as may be necessary to pay said taxes, together with interest
charges and costs of sale, and for this purpose the said collector is hereby
clothed with all the powers possessed by collectors of taxes under the Code
of Public General Laws.

1908, ch. 171, sec. 18 (p. 891).

352. The said corporation may erect lamps in any of the streets, lanes
or alleys of said town, and cause the same to be lighted at the public
expense.

1908, ch. 171, sec. 19 (p. 891).

353. The said corporation shall have the power to establish the limit
and width of the streets of said town and to improve the same, and to re-
move obstructions therefrom, and may open new streets, lanes and alleys;
that the said corporation shall have the power to provide for the payment
of damages and expenses of opening, widening and laying out, grading,
improving and keeping in good condition, the streets, lanes, alleys and
sidewalks in said town, and for the purpose may levy and assess the prop-