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WORCESTER COUNTY. [ART. 22.

Clerk.

136. The said commissioners may appoint a clerk
and prescribe his duties and salary, the said clerk
shall keep a book or record of the proceedings and

Ordinances to
be recorded.

ordinances of said commissioners which shall be open
at all times for the inspection of any person interested.

Powers of com-
missioners.

137. The said commissioners may pass ordinances to
preserve the health of the town, to prevent and remove
nuisances, to prevent, restrain or regulate the running
at large of horses, cattle, swine and geese within the
limits of said town, to prohibit the firing of guns or
pistols or the shooting of fire-crackers within the said
town, to prohibit and disperse the tumultuous meetings
of idle, dissolute or drunken persons, to provide for
working and mending the public streets, to open, close,
alter and widen the streets, lanes and alleys, to provide
for the paving the sidewalks and gutters, and generally
to provide for the regulation, good government and
improvement of said town, and may enforce the observ-

Fines, how re-
covered

ance thereof, under such penalties, fines and forfeitures,
as they shall deem proper not exceeding ten dollars for
any one offence, and all such fines, penalties and for-
feitures, may be recovered before a justice of the peace,
by warrant, judgment and commitment for a period
not exceeding ten days, to the public jail of Worcester
county, in the same manner that commitments are made
for fines imposed by the circuit courts of this state, on
conviction for misdemeanor; but the said commissioners
or a majority of them, shall have power at any time to
remit or release the said fines, penalties, forfeitures and
costs or any part thereof at their discretion; but any
party fined or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture
may within five days after the same shall be imposed,
and judgment recovered, supercede or stay the same
for thirty days by giving ample personal security to
the justice of the peace.

Tax on dogs.

138. The said commissioners shall provide for levy-
ing and collecting an annual tax of fifty cents on the
owner of every dog, and one dollar on the owner of
every bitch within the said town, and the killing of
every dog and bitch whose owner cannot be ascertained