990 DORCHESTER COUNTS. [ART. 10.

the inhabitants thereof, and to restrain all disorders and disturb-
ances, and prevent and remove all nuisances, inconveniences and
annoyances within the town; to prevent the running at large of
horses, cattle and other stock, and firing guns, pistols and fire-
crackers in the streets, lanes and alleys of the town; to make,
repair and regulate footways; make and keep open drains or
sewers; to extend the streets or alleys, and renew their boundaries;
to regulate market days, and make necessary regulations for con-
ducting the markets, and such other things as they may deem
proper, and may enforce obedience to their by-laws by such fines,
penalties and forfeitures as they may deem reasonable, not to ex-
ceed twenty dollars for any one offence.

1882, ch. 216.

65. They may cause an assessment to be made from time to
time, by three persons appointed by them, of all the property,
real, personal and mixed, of all kinds and descriptions whatever,
within the corporate limits of the town, or owned by the inhabi-
tants thereof, liable by law to be valued and assessed and charge-
able with taxes in this State; and in making said assessment the
said property shall be valued at its cash value, and it shall be
chargeable according to such valuation for the corporate purposes
of the town; provided, that the tax levied on said property shall
not exceed in any one year thirty cents on the hundred dollars of
the assessed value thereof; said assessors shall have authority to
administer oaths to persons to be assessed, and take a list of their
assessable property under oath.

Ibid.

66. Every assessor, before he proceeds to act, shall make oath
before the mayor that he will make and return a true valuation of
property as required by the preceding section, and a certificate of
such oath shall be preserved on the minute-book of the commis-
sioners. The mayor shall give two weeks' notice in one of the
county papers of any general assessment, with the names of the
assessors.

Ibid.

67. The commissioners shall annually have three successive
sittings, at least thirty days before a levy, for the correction of