ART. 18.] STEVENSVILLE. 1713

1886, ch. 464.

236. The said commissioners may mark and bound the limits
of said town to any extent to which the property of the inhabit-
ants may extend, and may enact such by-laws or ordinances, not
contrary to law, as they may deem proper for the preservation of
order, expedient for the health of the town and its inhabitants,
the prevention or removal of nuisances, and suppression of vice
and immorality in the said town; and such by-laws shall be re-
corded in a book, subject to the inspection of the inhabitants of
said town at all times.

Ibid.

237. They may meet, from time to time, as often as occasu>D
may require, and not less than once in every three months.

1886, ch. 464. 1888, ch. 340.

238. The said commissioners may grant building permits and
establish building lines, and may annually appoint a town bailiff,
who shall execute all laws and ordinances made by said commis-
sioners for the government of said town, its good order, and the
preservation of the health of the residents thereof; and said
bailiff, for the purpose aforesaid, shall possess all the powers of a
constable; and he shall give bond to said commissioners in such
penalty as they may prescribe, for the faithful performance of his
duties, and his compensation shall be prescribed and provided for
by said commissioners; and the said commissioners or a justice of
the peace shall have the power, through the said bailiff, as the
town officer, to enforce the payment of all fines, penalties and
forfeitures by commitment of the offender to the county jail until
the same be paid, with costs, or released by said commissioners.
In the execution of all commitments, the said bailiff shall be
entitled to the same fees as constables in like cases, to be collected
as part of the costs.

Ibid.

239. The said commissioners may lay an equal tax, not to
exceed twenty-five cents on the one hundred dollars of all the
assessable property within the limits of said town for the purposes,
of said corporation, and may authorize the town bailiff to collect
the same; and the said bailiff shall have the same power to dis-
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