ALBERT C. RITCHIE, GOVERNOR. 463

diately after Section 424, be and the same is hereby enacted,
said amendments and said new section to read as follows:

404. The officers of said corporation shall consist of a
Mayor and a Town Council, which shall be composed of six
members, a President of the Town Council, a town clerk,
(a tax collector) who, in addition to performing the duties
of Clerk, shall also be the tax collector and all references to
tax collector hereinafter made shall be construed as rela-
ing to said town clerk, a treasurer, a police magistrate, an
attorney, a weighmaster, a street commissioner, a police
officer and such other special policemen as the public wel-
fare of said town may require in any case of emergency,
who shall severally perform such duties and have such
powers as may be prescribed by law and the ordinances
passed in pursuance to said charter of said town.

The Mayor and members of said Town Council shall be
elected for the period of two years from the second Monday
in March, 1922, and shall hold office from the first Monday
in April following, except those three who were elected in
March, 1921, who shall continue in office until the month
of April, 1923, or until their successors are elected and
qualified.

The Mayor shall have the right to appoint the police
magistrate, the attorney to the town and the police officer,
by and with the advice and consent of the Town Council,
but the town clerk, street commissioner, (and the collector
of taxes) and weighmaster shall be elected by the town
Council, and said appointees shall each hold their respec-
tive offices and enter upon their duties from the first Mon-
day of April of the year in which they were so appointed,
or until their successors are appointed and qualified, un-
less sooner removed for cause in the discretion of the said
Town Council.

418. The Mayor and Town Council shall have power to
levy and collect taxes not to exceed seventy-five cents on
the one hundred dollars' worth of assessable property in
any one year, (except for the years 1924 and 1925, when
the tax rate may be one dollar) and whenever the said
Council shall levy a tax, which levy shall be made out on
the first Monday in May in each year, an alphabetical list
of the persons chargeable therewith shall be made out and
affixed thereto the respective sums to be collected from
each person, and annexed to said list shall be a warrant
to the clerk in his capacity as tax collector to collect the
same, and said clerk shall on or before the first day of July