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ART. 23. ] WORCESTER COUNTY.
appointed, who shall have the same power to dis-
train therefor as the collector of public county assess-
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ment has to distrain for the same; provided, said tax
shall not exceed twenty-five cents on the one hun-
dred dollars of the taxable property of said |own
for any one year, and the said president and com-
missioners shall fix the term of office, amount of
bond and compensation of such collector.
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PROVISO.
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56. The said commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall have full power and authority, annually to
appoint a bailiff, whose duty it shall be to preserve
the peace and good order of said town, and to per-
form such other duties as may be assigned him by-
said commissioners, or a majority of them, and for
this purpose he is hereby vested with the same power
and authority as any constable may now have under
the laws of this State.
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Ibid. 9 11.
Town bailiff,
his duties.
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57. Said commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall have full power and authority to straighten and
widen old streets, and to lay out and grade new
ones, when in their discretion the same may be neces-
sary; and they shall have full power to provide for
the payment of damages and expenses incurred by
widening or opening the streets aforesaid, by levying
and assessing the same generally upon the whole of
the assessable property of said town, or upon the
property of persons benefitted thereby.
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Ibid. s. 12.
Straightening,
&c., streets.
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58. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed
as to authorize the corporation hereby created to
issue any device, note, certificate or evidence of debt
to be used as currency, and the General Assembly
reserves the right to amend or repeal this charter
when the same shall be deemed advisable.
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Ibid s 13
Corporation
not to issue
notes &c, as
a currency.
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1865, c. 151 in force from March 21, 1865, and 1867, c. 36 in force from February 18, 1867.
1867, c. 213 provides that the county commissioners of Worcester county are hereby
authorized and empowered to sell and convey to such person or persons, anil upon
such terms and conditions as they or a majority of them may deem just and proper,
that lot or parcel of ground situate in the town of New Town in Worcester county,
that was sold and conveyed by James Stevenson to William Schoolfield, John S.
Stevenson and Ephraim T. Townsend as trustees for the levy court of said county,
on the twenty-eighth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and thirty-five.
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