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manufactures and traffic in offensive fertilizers or other com-
modities, and to prohibit hog-pens and slaughter-houses within
the town limits; to control, by ordinance, the mode of con-
structing privies and sinks, and the manner of disposing of
offal and waste products, and in general to pass such ordinances
as they may deem proper, necessary and beneficial to the town ;
and for the purpose of carrying out the foregoing powers, and
for preservation of the cleanliness, health, peace and good
order of the community, and for the protection of the lives
and property of the citizens, and to suppress, abate or discon-
tinue, or cause to be suppressed, abated or discontinued, all
nuisances within the corporate limits of said town, they may
pass all ordinances or by-laws from time to time necessary;
and to insure the observation of such ordinance, in addition to
the action of debt or such other civil remedies as may exist in
such case by law for the recovery of the penalties thereunto
affixed, they may affix thereto such reasonable fines, not
exceeding fifty dollars in any case, as to them may appear
right, and in default of the payment of any fine imposed,
they may provide for the imprisonment of the offenders for a
period not exceeding thirty days or until the fine is paid; pro-
vided, that no ordinance shall be adopted, except by yea and
nay vote, and the names of the members of the council voting
for and against the same shall be entered in the minutes.
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ordinances.
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14. The council may, whenever they think the public inter-
est requires it, cause an assessment to be made of all real and
personal property within the corporate limits of said town,
subject to assessment for county or State taxes, and they may
prescribe the manner in which such assessment shall be made,
and provide for adjusting all differences in relation to such
assessment, and to do all other things necessary for making
such assessment; provided, such assessment shall not exceed
the assessment for State and county purposes; and the council
may levy a tax not exceeding in any one year seventy-five
cents on the one hundred dollars' worth of assessable property.
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Assessment
oil property.
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17. The bailiff shall, within sixty days after the receipt of
such list and warrant, render to each person named therein an
account of the taxes due by such person; and if he cannot
render to any person such account by reason of his non-resi-
dence or otherwise during said time, he shall at the expiration
of said sixty days publish in some newspaper published in the
county where the property lies, a list of all taxes in default
once in each successive week for three weeks, giving notice to
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bailiff.
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