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same power and authority as any constable or police officer
may now or hereafter have under the laws of the State.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That the justices of the peace
resident in said town are hereby declared to be the conservators
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 violating any
of the ordinances made by the Councilmen for securing the
safety, health, property or lives of the inhabitants 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 de-
fault 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 corporation shall
have the power to levy and colflect taxes in said town not ex-
ceeding 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; provided, 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 October in each year
taxes shall be deemed to be in arrears and interest shall be
charged and collected from that date until paid; and imme-
diately after the first day of October the collector of taxes shall
deliver to each delinquent who has not prior thereto received
the same, an account of his assessment and the taxes and inter-
est 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 November 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 December of each year the col-
lector shall immediately 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, to-
gether with interest charges and costs of sale, and for this pur-
pose the said collector is hereby clothed with all the powers
possessed by collectors of taxes under the Code of Public Gen-
eral Laws.