ELIHU E. JACKSON, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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from all itinerant players or showmen exhibiting within said town

but shall not accept tickets to any such entertainment as payment

therefor; shall also have power to regulate, restrain or prohibit

any theatrical or other public exhibition on the streets, or indoors

within said town, when the same shall be deemed demoralizing or

otherwise obnoxious or objectionable; to license saloons, breweries

and other places where malt, spirituous, vinous or fermented

liquors are sold; provided, that no greater sum than thirty dol-

lars be charged for any one license for any of the aforegoing

objects.

SEC. 413. All ordinances passed in pursuance of the above sec-

tions shall be printed and posted in the most public places in the
said town, and also recorded in a book for that purpose by the

To print
and record

clerk, and which book shall be in the keeping of the burgess and

open at all times to the inspection of all persons interested.

SEE. 414. All ordinances heretofore passed by the burgess and

commissioners of Williamsport and now in force and not in con-

To oon-
tinue.

flict with the provisions of this act, are hereby continued in force

until the same are repealed or modified.

SEC. 415. If it be necessary to go outside of the ordinary taxes

levied for town purposes as prescribed elsewhere, for the estab-

lishment of a fire department or the erection and maintenance of

a lock-up as herein authorized, the burgess and commissioners are

Special tax

hereby empowered to levy a special or additional tax therefor;

provided, any ordinance so providing shall be first submitted to

the voters at the next ensuing election for municipal officers for

ratification thereof; if two-thirds of the votes be cast in favor the

same shall stand, if not, shall be of non effect.

SEC. 416. The said burgess and commissioners may appoint a

collector of taxes for the said town, who shall have the same

power to distrain and sell as collectors of county taxes have, and

shall receive such compensation for his services as the said cor-

Collector.

poration may deem just; he shall give bond with approved se-

curity to the said corporation for the prompt and faithful dis-

charge of his duties.

SEC. 417. The said burgses and commissioners may annually

lay an equal tax on all the real and personal property within the

limits of said town, which is legitimately subject to taxation by

the county and State for the general uses of the said corporation,

not to exceed in amount thirty cents on each hundred dollars

Taxation.

worth of taxable property, two-thirds at least of such amount so

collected to be used exclusively for the repairs and improvement

of the streets and alleys of the said town, as the board may deem

necessary from year to year to be done, and should it become

necessary in the future to meet condemnations of property, or for
opening up of new streets and alleys and placing the same in good

passable condition, or for grading or macadamizing, or otherwise