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exhibition of any stud-horse through the streets; and may im-
pose fines not exceeding ten dollars for any offence, on any per-
son violating said ordinances.

15. They may provide by ordinance for the immediate arrest,
without warrant, of any person violating any town ordinance,
by driving through the streets, when in the judgment of the
president or any two of said commissioners, the delay necessary
to the issuing of a warrant would be dangerous to the peace and
quiet of the village, or the lives, limbs and property of its citi-
zens, and when it shall appear that the offender is intoxicated,
shall take charge of the horse and vehicle and deposit them in
some place of safety until the offender shall be sober.

16. They shall have power to establish the limits and width
of the streets of said village, and to remove obstructions there-
from, and may with the consent of two-thirds of the owners of
the property through which they may pass, open new streets,
lanes and alleys.

17. They shall have power to provide for the payment of
the damages and expenses of opening, widening, laying out, and
grading of streets, lanes, and alleys in said village, by levying
and assessing the same generally upon the whole of the assessable
property of said town, or specially upon the assessable property
of persons benefitted thereby.

18. If on the opening or laying out any new street, lane, or
alley, the said commissioners cannot agree with, the owner of
any land or property wanted for the purposes, for the purchase,
use or occupation of the same, application may be made to any
justice of the peace for said county, who shall thereupon issue
his warrant under his hand and seal, directed to the sheriff of said
county, requiring him to summon a jury of twenty inhabitants
of said county, not related to the parties, or in anywise interested,
to meet on the land or near to the property to be valued, on a
day to be named in the warrant, not less than ten nor more than
twenty days after issuing of the warrant.

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