LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

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176. If any vacancy shall occur in the Town Council by¹
reason of death, resignation, removal from the town, removal
from office or otherwise, of any member, the Town Council
shall have the power within itself to fill such vacancy.

Vacancies.

177. The members of the Town Council shall meet at their
regular place of meeting, on the first Monday in April in each
year to organize; they shall elect one of their number to be
president of the Town Council, who shall preside at their
meetings, and in the absence of the Mayor, or in case of a
vacancy in that office, shall ex-officio be clothed with all the
powers and perform all the duties of Mayor; the Town Coun-
cil shall also, at said meetings, elect a town clerk, treasurer and
tax collector.

President of
council.

178. The Town Council may appoint a supervisor or super-
visors of the streets, lanes and alleys of said town, whenever,
in their discretion, they may deem proper to so appoint, and
direct in what manner the same shall be kept up and repaired,
and may allow such supervisors such compensation for their
services as they may deem reasonable.

Supervisors of
streets.

179. The Town Council may, from time to time, cause an
assessment to be made of all the property, real and personal,
in the town, by three persons appointed by them, and may
levy thereon a tax, not exceeding in any one year fifty cents
on every hundred dollars' worth of assessable property.

Assessment
of property.

180. The Mayor and Town Council shall have power to levy
and collect taxes not to exceed fifty cents on the one hundred
dollars' worth of assessable property in any one year, and when-
ever the said council shall levy a tax, which levy shall be made
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
bailiff or collector, to collect the same; and said bailiff or collec-
tor shall, within twenty days after the receipt of such warrant
and list render to each person named therein, an account of
his tax, and may, unless the same be paid within sixty days
after the date of said levy, collect the same by distress or other
due process of law, and sale of goods and chattels of the delin-
quent; and the said bailiff or collector shall account for the
amount of such levy, with the Mayor and Town Council,
within three months from the receipt of such warrant and list,
and pay over the same, collected, under the penalty of double
the amount thereof to the treasurer of said town. The Mayor

Levy and
collection
or taxes.