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thereafter on the fourth Monday in April there shall be elected
by said voters at the usual place of election, three Commis-
sioners, one of whom shall be designated as President of the
Board, and who shall be elected for one year, and two com-
missioners who shall be elected for two years, one of whom
shall be designated and voted for as Secretary to the Board,
who shall have resided within the corporate limits of said vil-
lage, and who shall have been a taxpayer for one year next
preceding the election. Said Commissioners shall hold office
until their successors shall have been duly elected and quali-
fied.

Section 334. They shall have full power and authority to
grade and pave all sidewalks and gutters, and compel parties
on streets already graded within the limits of said corporation
to pave such sidewalks or gutters, and shall have full authority
to designate the material with which said sidewalks or gutters,
including curbing, are to be constructed, or require the owner
or owners to reconstruct the same, out of such material as the
Commissioners may designate; and in case the parties owning
the property fronting on such sidewalks shall refuse to have
such sidewalks, gutters or curbing made and constructed when
directed to do so by any ordinance, or shall refuse to change
the grade or reconstruct when directed by any ordinance, the
said Commissioners shall have the work done and material
found, and shall cause the proportion of expenses chargeable
to each proprietor to be ascertained, and may recover the same
by action in the Circuit Court or before a Justice of the Peace,
according to the amount awarded, or may distrain the per-
sonal property of such proprietor at any time within six
months from the time when the ascertainment of the propor-
tion of such proprietor shall be made; provided at least two
days' notice be given by said Commissioners to the said pro-
prietor of the amount of his or her assessment prior to such
suit or distress, and the said corporation is hereby vested with
full power to pass all ordinances necessary to carry this section
into effect.

Section 338. The Board of Commissioners from time to
time under such conditions as they by their ordinances direct,
may appoint such officers as they deem necessary to carry into
effect their ordinances, among whom shall be a town bailiff,
who shall within said village have the authority of constable.

Section 339A. The Secretary to the Board shall also be the
collector of the town tax, as well as the collector of the bills