ART. 22.] WILLIAMSPORT. 2035

1876, ch. 63.

418. Whenever a majority of the property-holders on any
one street, or square of a street, in said town, shall determine to
have said street or square macadamized, paved or otherwise
improved, and shall certify the same in writing to the burgess
and commissioners, they shall cause the same to be done, and
may levy an ad valorem tax on all the real and leasehold estate
on said street or square, for such sum as may be necessary to pay
for such improvement, to be collected by the town collector, in
the same manner that other town taxes are collected.

Ibid.

419. They may direct by ordinance all or any of the footways
in the said town to be levelled and paved, or mended and
repaired with any materials they may think proper, and the same
shall be done at the expense of the owners of the different lots in
front of which the same shall be done, and the costs thereof shall
be collected the same as other town taxes are collected.

Ibid

420. They may keep the streets and alleys in said town in
repair, and may level and grade the said streets and alleys, or any
of them, in whole or in part, and cause bridges or culverts to be
made over the water-courses or hollows in said streets or alleys
and crossing places, of stone, at convenient points over the same.

Ibid.

421. No person shall raise or keep any hogs or geese within
said town, except in enclosures, or suffer any hogs or geese to go
and remain at large therein; and if any hogs or geese of any
inhabitant of said town be found at large therein, any person may
kill the same.

Ibid.

422. The said burgess and commissioners shall not contract
any debt or liability, unless they shall have provided beforehand,
by levy of taxes or other lawful method, for the payment thereof;
and in no case shall they allow the aggregate amount of the
liabilities or indebtedness of said corporation to exceed its cash
assets more than one hundred dollars.