2016 WASHINGTON COUNTY. [ART. 22.

act without favor, partiality or affection in all things appertaining
to their several trusts.

P L. L., (1860,) art. 21, sec. 286.

353. The said burgess and commissioners may meet from time
to time as often as occasion may require, upon the business of
the town, not less than once in every three months; and the
assistant burgess shall preside at all meetings in the absence of
the burgess, but when the burgess is present, the assistant bur-
gess shall have the same power as one of the commissioners.

Ibid, sec 287.

354. They shall have power to make all by-laws and ordi-
nances they may deem expedient for the comfort, health, conve-
nience and prosperity of the town and its inhabitants; .for the

prevention and removal of nuisances, the preservation of health,

and suppression of vice and immorality within the town.

Ibid, sec 288

355. They may by ordinance direct all or any of the footways
in the town to be laid off, leveled and paved or mended, with
any materials they may deem best, and the same shall be done
at the expense of the proprietors of the different lots in front of
which the same shall be directed to be done.

1880, ch. 317

356. They may lay an equal tax on the property, real and
personal, within the town, to such amount as may from time to
time be deemed necessary for the purposes of the corporation,
and may appoint a collector to collect the said taxes; and the said
collector shall have the same power to distrain therefor as the
collector of county taxes, and shall, when he has collected the said
taxes, pay the same to the burgess and commissioners; and the
said burgess and commissioners may prescribe the term of office,
responsibility and compensation of the collector.

Ibid.

357. They are authorized to rent or erect, maintain and use a
suitable building in said town for a lock-up, to which offenders,
and violators of the ordinances of the town may be committed.