T. HOLLIDAY HICKS, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

1860.

about the said work in obedience to the ordinance
and direction of the burgess and commissioners
aforesaid shall be allowed by the owner and de-
ducted out of the rent then due or hereafter to be-
come due and if any owner or tenant of any house
or lot or part of a lot or the person having the
care of the same shall refuse or neglect to level,
pave and amend or repair the footway in front of
the same according to the ordinance and direction
of the burgess and commissioners aforesaid, it
shall and may be lawful for the burgess and com-
missioners aforesaid to contract and agree with
some person or persons on reasonable terms to level,
pave, amend or repair such footways and to charge
the expense thereof to the owner or owners of the
property in front of which such work may be done
and shall recover the same by distress on such

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property with costs; Provided, that the burgess
and commissioners aforesaid, shall not have power
to pass an ordinance requiring the paving of side-
walks, repairing, &c., to be done as provided for
in this section without having first submitted the
question whether the said paving, repairing, &c.,
shall be done by the inhabitants of said town and
obtained a vote of two-thirds of the property hold-
ers thereof in favor of said paving, repairing, &c.

Proviso.

SEC. 10. And be it enacted, That the said burgess
and commissioners shall have power to make all
such by-laws, regulations and ordinances, as from
time to time they may deem wise, equitable and
expedient for the comfort, health, convenience and
prosperity of the said town and its inhabitants, for
the prevention or removal of nuisances, preserva-
tion of health and suppression of vice and im-
morality within the limits of said town, and shall
have power to lay an equal tax on the property
within the limits of the said town, to such amount
as may from time to time be deemed necessary to
accomplish the purposes aforesaid, which tax shall
be collected and paid to the said burgess and com-
missioners by a collector to be by them appointed,
who shall have the same power to distrain there-
for, as the collector of the public county assessment
has to distrain for the same, and the said burgess
and commissioners shall fix the term of office, re-
sponsibility and compensation of such collector.

Ordinances.

SEC, 11. And be it enacted, That all elections for
burgess, assistant burgess and commissioners, those

Elections.