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CHAP. 549
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the assessment book, and they may in advance notify
any person or persons to show cause why their respec-
tive assessments shall not be changed. They may also
give notice to any party or parties that they propose
to assess him, her or them with property not on the
assessment book or for improvement made to property. In
all cases affecting property already on the assessment book
where applications have been made or notice has been given
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May Increase
or diminish
assessment.
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of proposed changes the Council shall have authority to
increase or diminish any assessment as may seem right to
them. And the Council shall have power to administer
oaths to any person or persons coming before them in rela-
tion to the assessment of property to any other witness pro-
duced before them, said oath to be administered by any one
of the Councilmen; and in case of disagreement among the
Councilmen the concurrence of the majority of them shall
be necessary for the passage or adoption of an assessment
or any other matter, and in the matter of assessment of
property and changing assessments or re-valuing the same
as well as in the matter of passing bills against the town for
its current expenses the action of the Council shall be valid
without the approval of the Mayor. And the Mayor and
Council may provide for an entire new assessment of the
taxable property of the town once in ten years but not of toner.
Section 215 L. The Mayor by and with the consent and
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May remove
from office
any employe
for neglect
of duty.
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approval of a majority of the Council may remove from office
or discharge from employment, the town clerk, the treasurer,
the tax collector, the policeman or the night watchman or
any other officer or employe that may be elected or
appointed under any ordinance or order of the Mayor and
Council, whatever may be the term of service under which
he holds said office or employment, for neglect of duty, for
incompetence or for any other misconduct which in the judg-
ment of the Mayor and Council constitutes reasonable and
sufficient grounds for removing him from office or depriving
him of employment. In all cases where the official or
employe has any fixed or definite term of service a charge
or complaint in writing shall be presented to him and evi-
dence as to the facts alleged in such charge or complaint
shall be taken before the Mayor and Council if he denies
the truth of the facts alleged against him; but where such
officer or employe holds his employment at the will of the
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