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WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 21

Ibid. s. 8.
Clerk.

190. The burgess and commissioners, or a majority
of them, may appoint a clerk and assign his duties,
and allow him such compensation for his services as
they may think proper.

Ibid. s. 9.
Ordinances to
be recorded.

191. The clerk shall enter all ordinances passed by
the burgesses, in a book to be kept by him for that
purpose, and they shall be open at all times to the
inspection of all persons interested, and copies of all
ordinances shall be put up in the most public places
in the town.

Ibid s. 10.
Power to pass
ordinances.

192. The burgess and commissioners may make such
by-laws and ordinances as from time to time they may
deem expedient for the comfort, health, convenience
and prosperity of the town and its inhabitants, for the
prevention or removal of nuisances, the preservation
of health, and the suppression of vice and immorality
therein.

Ibid s 11.
Power to levy
taxes.

193. They may lay an equal tax on the property in
said town, to such an amount not exceeding fifty cents
in the hundred dollars worth of assessable property of
the town, for the purposes of the corporation, and may

Collector,

appoint a collector to collect the same, and prescribe
the term of office, responsibility and compensation, and
said collector shall have the same power to distrain for
said taxes, as the collectors of county taxes have, and
shall pay the same, when collected, to the burgess and
commissioners.

Ibid. s. 12.
Burgess to be
treasurer.
Bond.

194. The burgess shall be treasurer of the corpora-
tion, and shall give bond to the corporation, with secu-
rity to be approved by the commissioners, in such pen-
alty as they shall prescribe, conditioned for the faithful
performance of his duty as treasurer; and he shall
receive and pay away moneys according to the ordi-
nances of the corporation.

Ibid. s. 13.
Power to open
streets.

195. They may, with the consent in writing of a
majority of the lot-holders and citizens of said town, ac-
cording to the plat thereof, as have been closed up, [Sic]
and they may call upon the proprietors of such lots, or
their agents, for the original plat thereof, so that they
may define the limits and direction of such streets or