ART. 22.] CLEARSPRING. 1937

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 31, sec. 71.

83. They may make such by-laws and ordinances as they may
from time to time deem expedient, for the comfort, health, con-
venience and prosperity of the town and its inhabitants; for the
prevention and removal of nuisances, the preservation of health,
and the suppression of vice and immorality within the town.

Ibid. sec. 72.

84. They may lay an ad valorem tax upon the property within
the town, not exceeding twenty-five cents on every hundred dol-
lars worth of taxable property in any one year, and may appoint
a collector tc collect the same, and fix his term of office, respon-
sibility and compensation.

Ibid. sec. 73.

85. The said collector shall collect the taxes levied by the
corporation, and shall have the same power to distrain for the
same as the collector of county taxes, and he shall pay the said
taxes when collected to the burgess and commissioners.

Ibid. sec. 74.

86. The burgess shall be treasurer of the corporation, and
shall give bond to the corporation, with security, to be approved
by the commissioners, in such penalty as they shall prescribe,
conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as treasurer,
and he shall receive and pay away agreeably to the ordinances of
said corporation.

1868, ch. 76.

87. He shall see that all ordinances of the corporation are
faithfully executed, and shall, in virtue of his office, have and
exercise within the said town all the jurisdiction and powers of a
justice of the peace; and in all cases of judgment for misde-
meanor and refusal to obey the ordinances of said corporation,
shall have power to imprison for such periods of time, "and in
such manner as the burgees and commissioners by ordinance may
direct, and shall report annually to the commissioners, during the
first two days of their session, the general condition of the town,
with an accurate account of money received and expended, which
report shall be published for the information of the citizens.
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