The Common Council shall have power to require every male resident in said Town, between the ages of twenty-one and fifty years, to expend two days' labor upon the streets, alleys and public works of said Town during each current year when properly notified so to do by the Common Council and the Common Council shall have power also to permit such persons liable to perform work upon the streets, alleys and public works, of said Town, to commute for the same by paying into the treasury of said Town not to exceed one dollar and five cents ($1.05) per day for each day that he may fail so to labor when properly warned so to do; and in case any person liable to perform such labor shall fail to do so for ten days after having been properly and legally notified to that effect, the said Recorder of the said Town, upon a return of that fact to him by the Chief of Police, shall make out and sign a tax bill, stating the amount for which such individual is delinquent, and shall place the same in the hands of said Chief of Police, who shall have the same power in relation thereto, to levy, distrain and sell the property for the collection of such bill as he has under this charter or any by-law in regard to the collection of taxes of said Town.