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ators of the peace of said town, and it shall be their duty to
order the arrest of any person or persons found breaking the
peace or disturbing the quiet or order of said town or violat-
ing any of the ordinances made by the commissioners for
securing the safety, health, property or lives of the inhab-
itants of said town, destroying or injuring the property of
said town, and shall have power to require any person so
offending to give security to keep the peace, or in default
thereof may commit said person to the county jail for not
more than thirty days, or may, for the commission of said
offenses, impose a fine on such person of not more than five
dollars; and such person in default of payment thereof may
be committed to the county jail for a period of not more than
thirty days.
SEC. 17. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners
shall have the power to levy and collect taxes in said town
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Conservators
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not exceeding the rate of thirty cents on the hundred dollars
in any one year, on all assessable property in said town, on
the same basis of assessment as the said property shall for
said year be assessed for State and county purposes; pro-
vided, that all property in said corporate limits used only
for agricultural purposes shall only be assessed as such
agricultural property and not as town lots. On the first day
of July in each year taxes shall be deemed to be in arrears
and interest shall be charged and collected from that date
until paid; and immediately after the first day of July the
collector of taxes shall deliver to each delinquent, who has
not prior thereto received the same, an account of his assess-
ment and the taxes and interest due thereon, with a notice
and warning to said delinquent thereto attached, that unless
payment be made in full within thirty days from the delivery
of said notice, the same will be collected by process of law ;
and the said collector may at any time after the first day of
July proceed to seize, levy upon and sell the property of
said delinquent, or so much thereof as may be necessary to
pay said taxes with interest and costs thereon, and on the
first day of September of each year the collector shall imme-
diately proceed to collect all unpaid tax bills by seizing,
levying upon, advertising and selling said property, or so
much thereof as may be necessary to pay said taxes, together
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May levy and
collect taxes,
etc.
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