ART. 24.] WORCESTER COUNTY. 1147

meeting by a four-fifths vote of the whole Council, and within
sixty days from the time of the return of the ordinance.

45. All ordinances and by-laws heretofore passed by the
Commissioners of Berlin, or by the Mayor and Council of Ber-
lin and now in force not in conflict with the provisions of this
Act, shall be valid and remain in force until the same are re-
pealed, amended or modified by the Mayor and Council, and
all contracts entered into by said Commissioners or by the said
Mayor and Council for the good of said town, are hereby rati-
fied and confirmed and declared to be binding upon said town
and to be enforced by the Mayor and Council.

46. Power is hereby given to the Mayor and Council of
Berlin and to their successors in office to restrict and prevent
any person, persons or body corporate from building, erecting,
constructing or maintaining any dwelling, shop, factory, store
or other building within the limits designated by a certain ordi-
nance passed by the Town Commissioners of Berlin on the
seventh day of August, 1895, unless the same be of brick, stone,
iron or other non-combustible material, and the aforesaid ordi-
nance passed by the Town Commissioners of Berlin on August
T, 1895, be and the same is hereby declared valid, and of full
force and effect until the same is or except as the same may
have been repealed, amended or modified by the Mayor and
Council.

47. The Mayor and Council shall cause each male inhabitant
of Berlin between the ages of twenty-one and fifty-five years of
age and every other male inhabitant above fifty-five years of
age and possessing taxable property assessed at five hundred
dollars or upwards, who shall have resided within the limits of
Berlin for one month next preceding the date when his services
may be demanded to labor at least one day each year, and not
over two days in one year, on the streets, lanes and alleys of
said town; and the policeman whenever the said streets, lanes
and alleys shall need repairs, shall summon all such persons or
such numbers of them as he may deem necessary; provided, that
he shall not summon the same person twice until he shall have
exhausted the whole number liable to such duty in said town; said
summons shall be either written or printed or partly written and
partly printed, and shall give notice of the time and place the
said person so summoned is to appear; provided, that at least
one whole day shall intervene between the time of the service
of said notice and the day on which the work is to be per-
formed; provided, however, that if any person not possessing
taxable property assessed at five hundred dollars or upwards,
from whom such labor on the public streets, lanes and alleys