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Whenever anything for which a State license is required is to be done within said Town, the Council may require a Town license therefor and may impose a tax thereon for the use of the Town but no license to sell, offer or expose for sale, any brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, wine, porter, ale, or beer, or any other spirituous, vinous or malt liquor or any intoxicating liquor, drink, mixture or preparation whatsoever within said Town or within two miles of the corporate limits thereof, unless it be within another incorporated city, town, or village shall be authorized or granted, except as provided in Chapter Thirty-Two of the Code of West Virginia. The Council shall require from every person so licensed, a bond with good security to be approved by the Council, in a penalty of at least three thousand five hundred dollars, payable to said Town by its corporate name. Conditioned as prescribed in Section Eighteen of Chapter Thirty-Two of the Code of West Virginia, and may revoke such license at any time the condition of said bond be broken, upon days previous notice to the person holding the same. And suits may be prosecuted and maintained on such bonds as prescribed in said Section of said Chapter, by the same persons, in the same manner and to the same extent as upon the bonds mentioned in said Section and all the provisions of said Section therein in violation to the bonds shall be fined applicable to the requirements of this Section.
If the owner or occupier of any sidewalk, foot-way, or gutter, in said Town or of the real property next adjacent thereto shall fail or refuse to curb, pave or keep the same clean, in the manner or within the time required by the Council, it shall be the duty of the Council to cause the same to be done at the expense of the Town, and to assess the amount of such expense upon such owner or occupant, and the same may be collected by the Sergeant in the same manner herein provided for the collection of the Town taxes.
It shall be the duty of the Sergeant to collect the Town taxes, fines, levies and assessments, and in case the same are not paid within one month after they are placed in his hands for collection, he may distrain and sell, therefor in like manner as the officer collecting the State taxes may distrain therefor; and shall have in all other respects the same power to enforce the payment and collection thereof; and the said Sergeant shall have all the powers, rights and privileges within the corporate limits of said Town in regard to the arrest of persons, the collection of claims, and the execution and return of process that can be legally exercised by the constable of a district within the same, and he shall be entitled to the same compensation therefor, and he and his sureties shall be liable to all the fines, penalties and forfeitures that a constable of a district is liable to, for any failure or dereliction in said office, to be recovered in the same manner and in the same courts that the said fines, penalties, and forfeitures are now or covered against such constable. The Sergeant shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, execute a bond, conditioned according to law, with surety satisfactory to the Council, payable to the Town in the penalty, not less than one thousand dollars as the Council may prescribe.
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