FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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said limits. And they shall have the right to lay a tax not

Levy
taxes.

exceeding in any one year thirty cents on the one hundred

dollars on the taxable property within said corporation

limits, to be applied to carrying out the purposes of said

corporation. They shall be entitled to appoint, as soon as

may be convenient, after each regular election a town

bailiff, who shall hold till the next election, unless sooner

removed by the commissioners, and if a vacancy occurs in

the office of town bailiff, they may fill the same.

331. The town bailiff shall act as collector of the taxes

imposed by the commissioners and shall pay the same over

Bailiff-

to the commissioners, or under their direction. He shall

duties of.

also act as a peace officer within the corporate limits, and

shall possess within the same all the criminal powers be-

longing to the office of constable. As collector of taxes, the

town bailiff shall be authorized to enforce payment of such

taxes in the same manner and to the extent, as the collectors

of State and county taxes, or the same may be collected as

small debts in an action before any justice of the peace of

said county, in the name of the town commissioners, and

the summons in any such action may be served by the sheriff

of said county or by the town bailiff wherever he may find

the persons whose property is liable for such taxes, and all

such taxes shall become a lieu on the real estate of the per-

sons owing the same, lying within the limits of said cor-

poration, from the date of the levy thereof. Judgments

recovered for such taxes when recorded in the office of the

clerk of the Circuit Court of said county, may be enforced

against real estate as in the case of other judgments before

justices of the peace, and they may be enforced against per-

sonality as in the case of like judgment under execution

directed to the sheriff or any constable.

332. The violations of any ordinance of the said corpora-

Fines and

tion shall be a misdemeanor, and the person guilty of such

forfeitures.

violations may be tried and punished, as in the case of other

misdemeanors. All fines and forfeitures imposed for the

violation of such ordinances shall be paid over to the town

commissioners for the use of said town.

333. The said commissioners shall have full power to lay

Streets.

out new streets or roads within said corporate limits, and

to straighten, widen or change existing roads, streets or

highways, and they shall be authorized to do all things nec-

essary to keep such streets, roads or highways within such

corporate limits in good condition, and free from obstruction,

and they may pass ordinances regulating such roads, high

ways or streets and imposing fines and forfeitures for

obstructing the same. The said corporation may make