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penalty or forfeiture, may within five days after the
same shall be imposed and judgment recovered, su-
persede or stay the same for thirty days by giving	Supersede or
ample personal security to the justice of the peace,	Btay.
and the said fines, penalties and forfeitures shall
thereafter be collected as small debts are now col-
lected before a justice of the peace.
10. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have full power to make all such by-laws, regu- lations and ordinances not inconsistent with the laws	Power to make by-laws
and constitution of this State, as they deem expedi-
ent for the comfort, health, convenience and pros-
perity of said town and its inhabitants, for the pre-
vention and removal of nuisances, preservation of
health, the restraint of disorder and disturbance,
and suppression of vice and immorality within the	Suppress vice
limits of said town, and may enforce the observance
thereof by such penalties, fines and forfeitures as
they shall deem proper, not exceeding five dollars for any one offence, and shall have power to lay an equal	Power to lay
tax on all the assessable property within said limits,	tax.
excepting public and private securities and book ac-
counts, to such an amount as may from time to time
be deemed necessary, not exceeding twenty cents on	Limit.
the one hundred dollars of assessable property in
any one year, which tax shall be collected and paid
to the president and commissioners by the collector
by them appointed, who shall have the same power	Power to dis-
to distrain therefor as the collector of the public	train.
county assessment has to distrain for the same, and
the said president and commissioners shall fix the
term of office and amount of bond and compensa-
tion of such collector.
Approved April 1, 1878.