ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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and private buildings, trees, fencing and song-birds from deface-

ment or injury; to provide by ordinance for condemning, laying

out, opening, extending and making new streets or alleys, and for

altering, straightening, widening, grading, improving or closing

up in whole, or in part, any existing street or alley, and for lay-

ing out public squares, drains or water-courses; to establish and

regulate a station-house or lock-up for the temporary confinement

of the violators of the laws and ordinances of the town; to levy a

tax and impose a license upon dogs or other animals or fowls run-

ning at large; to regulate and control all offensive trades, manu-

factures and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other commodities

and to prohibit hog-pens and slaughter-houses within the town

limits; to control by ordinance the mode of constructing privies

and sinks, and the manner of disposing of offal and waste pro-

ducts, and for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers

and for the preservation of the cleanliness, 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 cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued all nuisances

within the corporate limits of said town; they may pass all ordi-

nances or by-laws, from time to time necessary, and to insure the

observance of such 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

thereto such reasonable fines, not exceeding fifty dollars in any

case, as to them may appear right, and in default of the payment

of any fines imposed, they may provide for the imprisonment of

the offender for a period not exceeding thirty days, or until the

fine is paid.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That the council may whenever they

think the public interest requires it, cause an assessment to be

made of all real and personal property within the corporate limits

of said town, subject to assessment for county or State taxes, and

they may prescribe the manner in which such assessment shall be

Assess-

made, and provide for adjusting all differences in relation to such

ment.

assessment, and do all other things necessary for making such

assessment; provided, such assessment shall not exceed the assess-

ment for State and county purposes; and the council may levy a

tax on the assessable property within the corporate limits of said

town not exceeding in any one year fifty cents in the one hundred

dollars worth of assessable property.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That any person may appeal from

the valuation made by the assessor to the council at their next

regular or quarterly meeting, and said council shall remain in

Appeal.

session as long as may be reasonable to hear and determine such

appeal, and shall give reasonable notice of such meeting, and may

abate or increase the assessment as may seem just.