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(9) To impose a tax on dogs, fowls, hogs and other animals running at
large, or totally prohibit the same;

(10) To authorize the use of the streets for railroad, operated by elec-
tric, steam or other mechanical motive power, and to regulate the same
as to grades, crossing, paving between and outside tracks and otherwise;
to require and compel all lines of railway in any one street to run on and
use one and the same track, and to keep in repair the bridges and cross-
ings through which or over which their cars run;

(11) To prescribe fines, penalties and forfeitures for the violation of
their ordinances, including the commital of offenders to the Montgomery
county jail, until the same with costs are paid.

1898, ch. 452, sec. 14. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 257.

427. They may adopt suitable measures for the removal of sewage and
garbage, and fix the amount to be paid therefor, which shall be paid by a
special tax for that purpose, to be imposed on the occupants of the respec-
tive buildings and collected therefrom, provided that the owners of the
property shall be responsible for said tax in case the same cannot be col-
lected from the occupants of the buildings, and the same shall be a lien
on said property and collected as other taxes are collected, and the council
may pass suitable ordinances to enable the proper officers to collect and
remove all filth from the town and provide for the disposal thereof. A
special tax may be imposed to carry out the provisions of this section,
not exceeding the sum of fifty cents per month on any one house, to be
paid by the occupant or owner thereof, as aforesaid.

1902, ch. 7, sec.15. 1912, ch. 790, sec. 258.

428. On or before the first day of June in each year the council shall
cause an assessment to be made on all the real and personal property with-
in said town or corporate limits thereof, by an assessor or assessors to be
appointed and paid by them, which assessments shall not exceed the assess-
ment of the same for county purposes, and the council shall immediately
thereupon levy a tax thereon not exceeding fifty cents on the one hundred
dollars' worth of assessable property in any one year. Any person may
appeal from the valuation of the assessor or assessors to the council, which
shall meet on the first Monday in July after said assessment and remain
in session from day to day as long as may be reasonable, to hear and
determine said appeals, and shall give reasonable notice of said meetings,
and shall increase or abate said assessment as they may deem just; and
the council shall once a year, before fixing and deciding upon the amount
of taxes and licenses to be assessed for the ensuing year, cause to be made
out a detailed estimate, exhibiting the various items of liability and ex-
penditure, including the requisite amount for all expenses during said
year, and shall cause the same to be published for at least three times
once a week, in the official journal of the town, and after hearing and
considering objections thereto by the citizens, if any, shall revise said
detailed estimate and fix and assess for the ensuing year such rate of