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been made or notice has been given of proposed changes the Council shall
have authority to increase or diminish any assessment as may seem right
to them. And the Council shall have power to administer oaths to any
person or persons coming before them in relation to the assessment of
property or to any other witness produced before them, said oath to be
administered by any one of the Councilmen; and in case of disagreement
among the Councilmen the concurrence of the majority of them shall be
necessary for the passage or adoption of an assessment or any other matter,
and in the matter of assessment of property and changing assessments or
revaluing the same as well as in the matter of passing bills against the
town for its current expenses, the action of the Council shall be valid
without the approval of the Mayor. And the Mayor and Council may
provide for an entire new assessment of the taxable property of the town
once in ten years, but not oftener. Service of any sort required by this
Act to be made on any firm may be made on any member thereof, and
on any corporation or association or any director or other officer thereof.

1908, ch. 733. 1920 Code, sec. 35.

36. The Mayor, by and with the consent and approval of a majority
of the Council, may remove from or discharge from employment the sec-
retary, the treasurer, the tax collector, the policeman or the night watch-
man or any other officer or employee that may be elected or appointed
under any ordinance or order of the Mayor and Council, whatever may
be the term of service under which he holds said office or employment, for
neglect of duty, for incompetence or for any misconduct which, in the
judgment of the Mayor and Council, constitutes reasonable and sufficient
grounds for removing him from office or depriving him of employment.
In all cases where the official or employee has any fixed or definite term
of service a charge or complaint in writing shall be presented to him and
evidence as to the facts alleged in such charge or complaint shall be taken
before the Mayor and Council if he denies the truth of the facts alleged
against him; but where such officer or employee holds his employment at
the will of the Mayor and Council they may discharge him with or with-
out formal charge or hearing if they consider it just, right and expedient
thus to do.

1908, oh. 733. 1920 Code, sec. 36.

37. The Mayor and Council shall publish annually by printed hand-
bills posted in at least five conspicuous places in said town, or by publi-
cation in some newspaper published in said Worcester County, or both,
a full and complete statement in tabulated form of their receipts and dis-
bursements, said publication to be made at least once each year prior to
the first Monday in May; and the secretary to the Council shall be charged
with the duty of making and attending to the publication of said state-
ment.*

*Secs. 37 and 38 of 1920 Code (1908, ch. 733), authorized $25,000 of water and
light bonds. Ch. 521, 1910 (secs. 42-46 of 1920 Code), authorized $15,000 for streets
and water and light plant. Ch. 181, 1924, authorized $10,000 of bonds for extending
light plant, subject to referendum.