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Session Laws, 1878
Volume 399, Page 175   View pdf image (33K)
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JOHN LEE CARROLL, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR. 175

108. If any of the owners of property assessed


within said town shall conceive themselves aggreived

Appeal when

by the assessment made by said assessors, they may

aggrieved.

appeal to said burgess and commissioners, who may


make such reduction in their assessments as they


shall deem just and right, provided the person so


aggreived shall take such appeal within sixty days


after such assessment is made, by notifying the said


burgess and commissioners of said appeal.


109. The said burgess and commissioners may pass
all by-laws and ordinances necessary to give effect



and operation to all the powers vested in them, and


the corporation may impose fines for the breach of

impose fines.

their ordinances and recover the same in the name


of said corporation before any justice of the peace


of said county, in the same manner as small debts


are recovered, but no such ordinance shall impose a


fine for any offence exceeding ten dollars.


110. Said burgess and commissioners may make


all such by-laws and ordinances, not contrary to law,


as they may deem expedient for the protection of
the health, comfort, convenience and prosperity of

Nuisances-

removal of

the town and its inhabitants, for the prevention or


removal of nuisances, and suppression of vice and


immorality within the town.


111. If any person shall neglect or refuse to pay


any fine imposed on him for a violation of any or


dinance of said corporation, the burgess and com

Burgess may

missioners may commit him to the county jail, or

commit.

town lock-up, for a space of time not exceeding ten


days.


112. The burgess and commissioners may pas


ordinances providing for laying out, leveling, repair
ing or building footways in said town, and direc

Footways
lay out, &c

the materials out of which the same may be made


and provide for collecting the costs thereof from th


owners of the different lots bordering on such foot


ways.


113. The burgess shall be treasurer of the corpo

ration, and shall give bond thereto approved by th

commissioners, or a majority of them, in the penalt

Bond

of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful




 

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