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CHAP. 359
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and such number of policemen as the public welfare of said
town shall require, who shall severally perform such duties
and have such powers as may be prescribed by law and the
ordinances passed in pursuance thereof. The mayor and
the members of the town council shall be elected by the
voters in said town. The town clerk, treasurer, tax collector
and street commissioner shall be elected by the town council.
The police magistrate, attorney, weighmaster and policeman
shall be appointed by the mayor by and with the advice and
consent of the town council. All the officers elected by the
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Term of office.
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town council or appointed by the mayor shall hold their
respective office for one year from the first Monday in April
in the year for which they are appointed and until their
successors are elected and qualified: Wherever the word
"bailiff" is used in the succeeding section of Chapter 25 of
the Acts of 1898 the same shall be construed to mean and
include the word "policemen."
Section 195 H. And be it further enacted, That all appli-
cations for license to sell spirituous and fermented liquors
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Application for
license to sell
liquors, etc.
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and lager beer in the said town of Oakland shall be
made to the Mayor and Town Council of said town at
least thirty days before the time herein prescribed for
the granting and issuing of such license; and the said
Mayor and Town Council shall consider all such appli-
cations and shall grant license for the sale of liquor
in said town; but they shall refuse to grant any license
if in their judgment the applicant in any case shall be
an unfit or an unworthy person, or if the place where
the applicant proposes to conduct his business under a liquor
license be in their judgment so near to any church, school
house, public building or private dwelling as may render the
sale of liquors at such place a menace to the good morals or
the good order of the neighborhood; and the said Mayor
and Town Council shall have power to revoke at any time
any license granted or issued by them under the provision of
this section upon proof that the licensee has been conducting
a disorderly house, or that such licensee has violated any
provision of this section or any ordinance passed in pursu-
ance thereof, as hereinafter prescribed, and the said Mayor
and Town Council shall pass all such ordinances as may be
necessary to impose a license tax upon each and every
saloon or other place where spirituous and fermented liquor
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