1528 MONTGOMERY COUNTY. [ART. 16.

fines, penalties and forfeitures for the violation of their ordi-
nances, and commit all offenders to the county jail until the
same be paid with costs.

1834, ch. 208.

153. They may pass such ordinances as they may deem neces-
sary for the preservation of the health of the town, and remove
all nuisances from, or prohibit all such business within the cor-
porate limits thereof, as shall, in their opinion, injuriously affect
the sanitary condition thereof.

Ibid.

154. They may, as often as they deem advisable, cause an
assessment to be made of all the real and personal property with-
in said town, or the corporate limits thereof, by a person to be
appointed and paid by them, which assessment shall not exceed
the assessment of the same for county purposes, and they may
levy a tax thereon, not exceeding ten cents in the hundred dol-
lars' worth of assessable property.

Ibid.

155. Any person may appeal from the valuation of the
assessor to the commissioners, who shall meet on the first Monday
in June after any such assessment, and remain in session as long
as may be reasonable, to hear and determine such appeals, and
shall give reasonable notice of any such meeting, and shall
increase or abate such assessment as they may deem best.

Ibid.

156. Whenever the commissioners shall levy a tax, they shall
cause to be made out an alphabetical list of the persons charged
therein, and shall cause to be affixed thereto the respective sums
to be collected from such persons, and a warrant to the chief
bailiff to collect the same.

Ibid.

157. The chief bailiff shall, within ten days after the receipt
of such list and warrant, render to each person named therein an
account or tax bill, showing the amount due by him, if he be a
resident of the town; and if he be a non-resident, and in conse-
quence thereof cannot conveniently be served with said account