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when the same are due and payable; and they shall be due and
payable thirty days from the date of levying the same; the said
corporation may also, in its discretion, allow a discount not ex-
ceeding five per centum for prompt payment of said taxes.

P. L. L., (1860,) art. 7, sec. 116.

234. The mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the
common council, may appoint a bailiff or bailiffs, not exceeding
three, who, within the limits of said city shall have all the powers
of constables; and also a clerk; and the clerk shall have such
powers, and the bailiffs and clerk shall receive such compensation
as shall be fixed by ordinance.

Ibid. sec. 117.

235. The clerks, bailiffs and collectors shall, respectively, give
bond with security in such penalty as shall be prescribed by ordi-
nance; and the said bonds shall be approved by the mayor.

1883, ch. 295.

236. The mayor and common council may pass all ordinances,
necessary to regulate or prevent the going at large in the city
limits, of horses, cattle, sheep, goats, swine, geese, or any other
brute, beast or fowl; to regulate and prevent the going at large
of dogs in said city, and provide for the killing of worthless,
annoying or dangerous dogs; to levy a tax on dogs, male or
female, kept in the city limits; fix the rates of said tax, and to
collect the same from the owners in the same manner as other
city taxes are in this sub-title of this article allowed to be collected,
and may, in default of payment of said tax, provide for the kill-
ing of dogs whose owners make such default.

Ibid.

237. The mayor of said city, in case he disapproves of any
ordinance passed by the common council of said city, may refuse
to sign the same, and shall return the same to the said common
council at its next meeting, with his reasons for withholding his
signature therefrom; and if the said ordinance when again put
upon its passage shall receive the votes of four-fifths of the mem-
bers of said common council, it shall become a valid ordinance
without the signature of said mayor.