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dens shall be taxed for corporate purposes, so long as said

land shall be used for agricultural purposes ; and the com-

missioners may levy a tax on the assessable property within

the corporate limits of said town, not exceeding in any one

year fifty cents on the one hundred dollars worth of asses-

sable property.

SEC. 82. The said commissioners may appoint a collector

(to which office the burgess is eligible), to collect said taxes,

Collector

and the term of said collector is to expire one year from his

appointment, or until his successor be appointed. The said

commissioners shall fix his responsibility and compensation.

SEC. 83. Whenever the commissioners shall levy a tax,

List of tax

they shall cause to be made out an alphabetical list of the

payers.

persons to be charged therewith, and thall cause to be affixed

thereto the respective sums to be collected from each person,

and a warrant to the collector to collect the same.

SEC. 84. The collector appointed by the commissioners

may enforce the payment of corporation taxes in the same

Enforce

manner and with like effect as collectors of State and county

payment of
taxes.

taxes may enforce the payment of State and county taxes.

SEC. 85. The collector shall make all collections required

of him, and pay the same to the treasurer in six months

Taxes to

from the time the tax is placed in his hands, and which said

be paid to
Treasurer

treasurer shall hold, together with all moneys received by

him, subject to the order of the commissioners.

SEC. 86. The said commissioners may pass all ordinances

not contrary to the laws of the State, necessary to give effect

Local law.

and operation to the powers vested in them, and in the

absence of ordinances, the law of the county shall be the

law of the town.

SEC. 87. All fines and penalties shall be for the use of

said town.

Fines, &c.

SEC. 88. All acts or parts of acts, inconsistent with the

Repeal.

provisions of this act, shall be and the same are hereby

repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take

Effective.

effect from the date of its passage.

Approved April 7th, 1892.