2002 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 22.

building, or the purchase of some suitable place for a lockup;
for the building of footways or bridges over the waters of the
town; for the erection of street lamps; for the building of a town
hall; for the grading of all new streets; and for making pave-
ments along unimproved lands or water, and for any other public

improvements.

1872, ch. 851.

290. They may, from time to time, make such by-laws as they
may deem expedient for the comfort, health, convenience and
prosperity of the town, the prevention or removal of nuisances,
preservation of health, and suppression of vice and immorality.

Ibid.

291. They may lay an equal tax on the property within said
town to such an amount as may, from time to time, be deemed
necessary, and may appoint a collector to collect the same, and
prescribe his term of office, responsibility and compensation; and
the said collector shall have the same power to distrain for the
taxes so levied as the collector of county taxes has, and shall
collect and pay the same to the said burgess and commissioners.

1876, ch. 88.

292. The burgess shall be the treasurer of the corporation,
and shall give bond to the same, with security to be approved by
the commissioners, in such penalty as they shall prescribe, con-
ditional for the faithful performance.of his duties as treasurer;
and he shall receive and pay out all monies and make a public
report at the end of his year of office, according to the ordinances
of the corporation.

1872, ch. 251.

293. The said corporation shall not at any time issue any note,
certificate or other device, to be circulated as currency.

1876, ch. 86.

294. All fines and forfeitures imposed by the ordinances of
the corporation shall be recoverable before the burgess or any
justice of the peace of the county; but no fine or forfeiture
imposed under any ordinance of said corporation shall exceed
twenty dollars; and in case of default of payment the person
fined may be committed to the county jail for a period not longer
than thirty days.