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exhibitions or amusements within the town and within one mile
thereof; to regulate and tax dogs, and in all cases when the public

safety may so require, to prevent them from going at large; to
regulate and prevent horses and hogs from going at large in the
town; to pass all ordinances necessary for paving or otherwise
improving and keeping in repair the streets, lanes, alleys and
iootways thereof, and to lay and collect an equal tax upon the
personal and real estate within the corporation, for all purposes
necessary for carrying into effect the by-laws and ordinances of
the town.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 11, Bee. 63.

118. They may, subject to the approval of the burgess, pro-
vide by ordinance for making a new assessment of all the real
And personal property in the town as often as it may seem neces-
sary ; and may pass all ordinances necessary to give effect and

operation to all the powers vested in the corporation.

Ibid. sec. 63.

119. They shall not levy a tax exceeding twenty cents on the
hundred dollars of assessable property in any one year.

Ibid. sec. 64.

120. They may direct, by ordinance, all or any of the foot-

ways in the town to be laid off and levelled, paved, curbed and
mended, with any material which to them may seem best, at the
expense of the proprietors of the different lots, or portions of
lota, in front of which the burgess and commissioners shall direct
the same to be done.

Ibid. sec. 66.

121. If the owner of any house, lot, or part of a lot, where
such levelling, curbing, paving or mending shall be directed to be
done, shall not reside in said town, the tenant or person occupy-
ing the same, or who has charge thereof, shall cause the same to
be done in front of such possession, and the money expended by
such tenant or other person in and about said work, in obedience
to the ordinance of the corporation, shall be allowed by the
owner, and deducted from the rent due or to become due.