ART. 21. ] WASHINGTON COUNTY.

alleys; and if the proprietor of any lot, or his or her
agent, shall refuse to furnish such plat, they may take
such testimony as they may think necessary to define
the limits and directions of such streets and alleys, and
lay out and open the same as effectually as if they had
such plats.

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196. The expenses of laying out and opening any
street or alley in said town shall be paid oat of the
funds of the corporation not appropriated, or by the.
parties petitioning for the same, at the discretion of the
burgess and commissioners; but in no case shall any
damage or expenses be allowed to any proprietor of
any lot by whom or by whose authority any street or
alley has been closed.

Ibid. s. 14.
Expenses, how
paid.

197. They may direct, by ordinance, all or any of
the footways in the town to be laid off and leveled,
and paved or repaired with any material they may
deem best, at the expense of the deficient proprietors
of lots before which the same shall be done.

Ibid. s. 15.
Power to pave
footways.

198. If the owner of any house, lot, or part of lot
where such leveling, paving or repairing shall be
directed, shall not reside in the town, the tenant or
person occupying such house, lot or part of lot shall
cause the same to be done, and the money so expended
under the direction of the corporation, shall be allowed
by the owners and deducted from the rent then due or
to become due, and if the tenant or person occupying
such lot shall refuse or neglect to level, pave or mend
the same, agreeable to the ordinance of the corpora-
tion, the same may be done by the corporation, and the
expenses thereof, with costs, shall be charged to and
collected from the owner by distress and sale of such
property.

Ibid, s 16
Expenses, how
paid.

199. All violations of the ordinances for the peace
and good order of said town, shall be punished by a
fine not exceeding twenty dollars, to be imposed by the
burgess or by any justice of the peace for Washington

Ibid. s. 17.
Fines.

county, said fine to be collected according to the pro-
visions of article forty, code of public general laws.

Approved April 8, 1870.

How collected.