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	sion may require upon the business of said town, and
	not less than once in three months ; and if during
	the year for which they may be elected any of said
	commissioners should die, resign, remove from said
	town, or be otherwise disqualified, an election to fill	Election to
	the vacancy, on ten days notice thereof being given	fill vacancy
	by the commissioners, shall be held, at which all
	persons qualified as specified in the second section of
	this charter shall be entitled to vote.
	82. The said commissioners or a majority of them
	shall have power to appoint a clerk, and assign his	Appointclerk
	duties, and allow him compensation for such services	Compensat'n.
	as they may think proper, and all ordinances passed
	by said commissioners or a majority of them, shall
	by. their clerk be entered into a book to be kept by
	him for that purpose, and shall be open at all times	Open to in-
	for the inspection of any person interested, and	spection.
	copies of all ordinances shall be put up in the most
	public places of said town that the same may be
	generally known.
	83. All fines and forfeitures under the ordinances	Fines and
	of the said corporation shall be recoverable as small	forfeitures re-
	debts are recoverable out of court before any justice	coverable.
	of the peace.
	84. The limits of said town shall extend to the
	distance of one-half mile each way from the public	Limits of
	well in said town, and the property within said limits	town subject
	shall be subject to such taxes and charges as may be	to taxes.
	deemed necessary by said commissioners, or a ma-
	jority of them, to support or maintain the expenses
	that may occur from time to time in the improve-
	ment of said town.
	85. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have full power to make all such by-laws and	Power to make by-laws
	regulations and ordinances not inconsistent with the
	laws and constitution of this State, as from time
	to time they may deem necessary and expedient for
	the comfort, health, convenience and prosperity of
	said town and its inhabitants, for the prevention and	Prevention
	removal of nuisances, preservation of health and sup-	of nuisances, vices, &c
	pression of vice and immorality within the limits of
	said town, and shall have power to lay an equal tax
	upon the property within the said limits, to such an