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P. L. L., 1888, Art. 23, sec. 308. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 221.

623. They may appoint a collector to collect said tax, and may fix his
term of office, responsibility and compensation; and the said collector
shall have the same power to distrain for said tax as the collector of county
taxes has for county taxes, and shall pay the same to the said burgess and

commissioners.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 309. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 222.

624. The burgess shall be treasurer of the corporation and shall give
bond thereto, with security, to be approved by the commissioners, in such
penalty as they shall prescribe, conditioned for the faithful performance
of his duty as treasurer; and he shall receive and pay away all moneys
agreeably to the ordinances of the corporation.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 310. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 223.

625. The burgess and commissioners may direct by ordinance all or
any of the footways in said town to be paved or repaired, with any mate-
rials they may think proper, at the expense of the proprietors of the dif-
ferent lots in front of which the same shall be done.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 311. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 224.

626. If the owner of any lot, in front of which such paving or repair-
ing shall be directed to be done, shall not reside in said town, the tenant

or person occupying or having charge of said lot shall cause the same to
be done, and the money expended thereon by such person, under the ordi-
nance of the corporation, shall be allowed by the owner of such lot, and

deducted from the rent then due or to become due; and if such owner or
tenant shall refuse or neglect to repair or pave said footway, the burgess
and commissioners may cause the same to be done, and collect the expense

thereof, with costs, by distress and sale of such lot.

P. L. L., 1888, Art. 22, sec. 312. 1860, Art. 21, sec. 225.

627. All fines and forfeitures, under the ordinances of said corpora-
tion, shall be recoverable before the burgess or before a justice of the peace
as small debts; but no fine or forfeiture shall exceed the sum of twenty

dollars for any one offence.

P. L. L., 1883, Art. 22, sec. 313. 1870, ch. 69.

628. The burgess or any justice of the peace, when imposing a fine,
penalty or forfeiture for the violation of any by-law or ordinance of said

corporation, shall have power to commit the person convicted, to the public
jail, or any appropriate place of confinement within the corporation, which
the burgess and commissioners may provide, if said offender shall fail or
refuse to pay the fine, penalty or forfeiture and costs, there to remain
until the same shall be paid or until discharged, as hereinafter provided;
and the sheriff of the county shall receive and safely keep such person
according to the tenor of the commitment, and shall be entitled to his