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Session Laws, 1902 Session
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JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

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pleasure. The Mayor shall receive one hundred and fifty
dollars per annum as his salary, and Couucilmen shall receive
two dollars and fifty cents per day each for every day they
may be in session or actually engaged in attending to their
public duties.
Section 147. Whenever they shall levy a tax, the Mayor and

CHAP. 88.

Councilmen shall make out an alphabetical list of the persons
chargeable therewith, and shall fix the respective sums to be
collected from each person, and annex to said list a warrant
to the collector to collect the same.
Section 148. The collector, within ten days after the receipt

Tax list to be
made out.

of such warrant and list, shall render to each person named
therein an account of his tax, and unless the same be paid
within three months after the date of the levy, may collect the
same as provided by section 150 of this article; and all assess-
ments, rents and charges made by said Mayor and Councilmen
for the use of water supplied by them are hereby made a lien
upon the real estate upon which said water is used, of equal
rank with other corporate taxes, and shall be collected as such
taxes are authorized to be collected under said section 150
of said article.
Section 149. The collector shall account for the amount of

Account of
taxes to be
rendered.

such assessments in the manner provided for by chapter 639 of
the Acts of 1900 ; and on all taxes remaining unpaid for three
months after the same shall have been levied he shall charge
and collect interest from the date of the levy at the rate of
six per centum per annum, to be accounted for with the tax ;
and in all suits by the Mayor and Councilmen upon the bond
of said collector for any neglect of duty, or for not collecting
any tax placed in his hands, according to law, or for breach of
his duty in not paying over money collected by him, proof of
the delivery of the levy list shall be sufficient prima facie
evidence to entitle the Mayor and Councilmen to recover
judgment in such suit unless said collector shall show that he
has discharged his duty in such case according to law.
Section 153. The Mayor and Councilmen shall have full
power and authority to grade, curb and pave or repair or cause

Collector to
account for
amount of
assessments.

to be graded, curbed and paved or repaired all sidewalks,
gutters, ditches and sewers which in their judgment the public
convenience may require, and from time to time, if necessary,
to change or alter the grade of such sidewalks, gutters, ditches
and sewers, and to repave or repair the same whenever they
may require it, and to collect the expense of grading, curbing
and paving or otherwise improving the same as hereinafter
provided ; they shall also have power to grade and pave all the
streets, lanes and alleys of said town, and to pay the expense

Authorized
to grade,
pave, curb
and repair
where
necessary.



 

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