To lay out, open, alter, widen, extend, establish, vacate, abolish, grade, pave, or otherwise improve and keep in good repair all roads, streets, lanes, avenues, alleys, squares, commons, parks, or other public grounds or places in said village and to have exclusive control of the same; and in order to keep the same in good repair, may require every able bodied male inhabitant, over the age of twenty-one and under fifty, to labor on the same, not exceeding three days in every year, or pay commutation in lieu thereof at the rate of one dollar for each day they may be required so to labor, and the inhabitants of said village are hereby exempted from working on any road beyond the limits of said corporation, and from paying any tax, on property within the corporate limits to procure labor to be done thereon and to cause any road, street, lane, avenue, alley, public square, common, or park laid out or to be laid out, widened or extended to be surveyed and platted and the plat thereof to be filed with the corporate clerk together with a minute of the survey.