ART. 22.] JERUSALEM. 1993

and its inhabitants, for the prevention or removal of nuisances,
the preservation of health, and the suppression of vice and im-
morality therein.

1870, ch. 452.

255. They may lay an equal tax on the property in said town,
to such an amount, not exceeding fifty cents in the hundred dol-
lars' worth of assessable property of the town, as they may think
proper for the purposes of the corporation, and may appoint a

collector to collect the same, and prescribe his term of office, re-
sponsibility and compensation; and said collector shall have the
same power to distrain for said town taxes, as the collectors of
county taxes have for county taxes, and shall pay the same, when

collected, to the burgess and commissioners.

Ibid

256. With the consent in writing of a majority of the lot-
holders and citizens of said town, according to the plat thereof,
they may open such streets or alleys as have been closed up, and
they may call upon the proprietors of such lots, or their agents,
for the original plat thereof, so that they may define the limits
and direction of such streets or alleys; and if the proprietor of any
lot, or his agent, shall refuse to furnish such plat, they may take
such testimony as they may think necessary to define the limits
and directions of such streets and alleys, and lay out and open
the same as effectually as if they had such plats.

Ibid.

257. The expenses of laying out and opening any street or
alley in said town shall be paid out of the funds of the corpora-
tion not appropriated, or by the parties petitioning for the same,
at the discretion of the burgess and commissioners; but in no
case shall any damage or expenses be allowed to any proprietor
of any lot by whom or by whose authority any street or alley has
been closed.

Ibid.

258. They may direct, by ordinance, all or any of the foot-
ways in the town to be laid off and leveled, and paved or repaired
with any material they may deem best, at the expense of the'
proprietors of lots in front of which the same shall be done.