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liness, health, peace and good order of the community, and for
the protection of the lives and property of the citizens, and to
suppress, abate or discontinue, or to cause to be suppressed,
abated or discontinued, all nuisances within the corporate and
sanitary limits of said town, they may pass all ordinances or by-
laws from time to time necessary; and, to ensure the observance
of said ordinances in addition to the action of debt or such other
civil remedies as may exist in such cases by law for the recovery
of the penalties thereunto affixed, they may affix such reasonable
fines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any case, as to them may ap-
pear right; and in default of the payment of any fine imposed,
they may provide for the imprisonment of the offender for a
period not exceeding twenty days, or until the fine be paid; and
instead of the aforesaid penalties, it shall be lawful, in case of the
conviction of any person for vagrancy, to sentence such person
to hard work for a period not exceeding ten days.

1886, ch. 33.

249. The commissioners shall have power to lay an equal tax
on the property within the limits of said town to such an amount
each year, not exceeding the sum of twenty-five cents on each one
hundred dollars worth of property, as may be deemed necessary
for the government of said town, which taxes so levied and as-
sessed shall be collected promptly by the bailiff of said town and
paid over as collected, or within ten days thereafter, to the treasurer
of said town, appointed by said commissioners; and the said bailiff
shall have the same power to distrain for said taxes as the collector
of public county taxes has to distrain for the same; and the said
commissioners shall fix the amount of bond, rate of compensation
and prescribe the duties respectively of said bailiff and treasurer.
All property within the limits of Westernport, or that may have a
situs there, by reason of the residence of the owner therein, shall
be taxed for municipal purposes; and the assessment for town
purposes shall be the same as that for State and county purposes.

Ibid.

250. All existing ordinances heretofore passed by the commis-
sioners, not in conflict with any of the nine preceding sections, are
continued in force until duly repealed or modified.