ART. 6.] DENTON. 655

1884, ch. 867.

90. The president, cashier or other proper officer of banking
and other private corporations, whose stock standing in the name
of any individual or company on the books of said bank or cor-
poration is liable to be valued and assessed against said person
or company owning the said stock under section 88, shall make
out and deliver to the said assessor or assessors, an account of
such stock so standing as aforesaid on the books of such bank or
corporation, and the same shall be verified by the oath of the
proper officer of the bank or corporation; or the said assessor or
assessors may require that the stock-books of said bank or corpo-
ration shall be opened to him or them for his or their inspection.

Ibid.

91. The taxes to be levied on the property so made liable" to
be valued and assessed, shall be liens on the real estate of the
persons so indebted from the day on which the tax-lists shall be
delivered to the said bailiff or person appointed and authorized to
receive and collect the same; but no sale of real estate shall be
made until after the personal estate of said taxpayer, within the
limits of said town, shall have been first taken and sold for the
payment thereof.

Ibid.

92. The said commissioners may annually levy upon the as-
sessable property within said town, by a direct tax, not exceeding
fifty cents in the one hundred dollars, such sum as they may
deem necessary for the purpose of defraying and settling the ex-
penses likely to be incurred by them on behalf of said corpora-
tion ; and they may apply and appropriate the funds arising from
such tax, as well as all other funds and monies belonging to said
corporation, in their discretion, in paying the cost and expenses
of opening, closing, extending, widening, paving and improving
streets, alleys and grounds; for providing street lamps and light-
ing the same, fire machinery and apparatus; for removal of garb-
age, obstructions and nuisances; for settling pumps and wells for
drainage; for restricting the spread of contagious diseases; for
the payment to their officers or employees of reasonable salaries,
and for such other purposes as in their judgment will benefit and
eubserve the public interest.