FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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sary for the public business. The members of the town

When to
meet.

council shall be entitled to one dollar per day each for

attending the sessions of the council, or attending to the

Pay.

other public business required of them ; not, however, to

exceed twenty -four dollars to any member in any one year.

175. The town council shall appoint three judges of elec-

tion and two clerks for the purpose of holding each general or

Judges and
clerks

special election which may be held under the provisions of

this act, or the ordinances passed in pursuance thereof. Ten

days' notice shall be given of all elections general or special.

176. If any vacancy shall occur in the town council more

than three months before the close of the term by reason of

Vacancy
In council.

death, resignation, removal from the town, removal from

office or otherwise of auy member, the town council shall

without delay, order a special election to be held for the

purpose of filling such vacancy.

177. The members of the town council shall meet at their

regular place of meeting on the first Monday iu May, in

President.

each year, to organize ; they shall elect one of their num-

ber to be president of the town council, who shall preside

at their meetings, and in the absence of the mayor, or in

case of a vacancy in that office shall ex-officio be clothed

with all the powers and perform all the duties of mayor.

The town council shall also at said meeting elect a town

clerk, treasurer and tax collector.

178. The town council shall, in the year eighteen hun-

dred and ninety-two, and in each fifth year thereafter,

Assess-
ment

cause an assessment to be made of all the property, real,

personal and mixed in said town for the purpose of taxa-

tion, and shall provide by ordinance for making such

assessment, and for hearing appeals from any valuation

which may be made.

179. The town council shall have power to levy and col-

Taxes

lect taxes not to exceed fifty cents on the one hundred dol-

lars' worth of property in any one year, and shall provide by

ordinance for the collection of said taxes. The levy shall

be made at the regular meeting in June in each year, and

all taxes so levied shall be a lien on any and all property of

the person against whom they are levied.

180. The town council shall provide for maintaining

town scales and a lock-up, or town prison where all offenders

Lock-up,
&c

against the ordinances of the town may be imprisoned by

the tribunal having jurisdiction to hear such offenses.

181. No member of the town council shall during his

term of office, hold or be interested in any other office under