FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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impartially perform their duties as such assessors, to assess

Oath.

each and every piece of land separately with the improve-

ments thereon, and all personal property within said town

at a fair cash value at public sale as near as they may be

able to determine the same, and showing in said assessment

in the case of land each piece of land, and the improvements

thereon separately with the assessed value thereof and the

name of the owner thereof when said name can be obtained

and in case of personal property the assessed value and the

name of the owner thereof ; and said assessors shall receive

for their service in this behalf such reasonable compensation

as may be fixed by the mayor and council of said town be-

fore assessment by law. Immediately upon the completion of

said assessment the board of assessors shall give notice of

the fact to the mayor, who will give public notice of the

fact by posting notices thereof in three conspicuous places

in said town, and by publication in at least one, and not

more than three newspapers published in said town by two

weekly insertions therein, if any paper be there published

and said assessment shall thereupon be open to the inspec-

tion of all the citizens of said town ; and if any owner of

said property so assessed shall feel aggrieved by said

assessment he may appeal to the mayor aud said council of

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said town within fifteen days after the posting or the last

appeal.

publication of the notice herein required, and said mayor

and council are hereby constituted a final board of appeal

aud equalization of said assessment and as such are em-

powered to make such deductions from and additions to the

assessments made by the board of assessors as may be

reasonable and just and for the purpose of equalization, and

they may also remit taxes when the same have been illegally

imposed; upon the perfection and final completion of the

assessment rolls the mayor and council shall levy the taxes

authorized to be levied by law, and shall deliver to the

treasurer their warrant for the collection thereof, and such

tax as shall thereupon be collected as by law provided.

SEC. 207. There shall be appointed by the mayor and

city council in the month of April annually, one person pos-

sessing the same qualifications as the mayor, as bailiff of said .

Bailiff

town, whose duty it shall be to preserve the peace and good

order of the town, and for this purpose the said bailiff is

hereby vested with the same powers and authority now pos-

sessed by constables under the laws of the State ; said bailiff

shall take the required oath and enter upon his duties on

the second Monday of April of each year, and in case of a

vacancy the mayor and city council shall fill the same for

the residue of the term.