SECTION
1. Towns are bodies corporate.
2. Parishes declared to be towns.
3. Towns may hold property and make contracts.
4. Towns may raise taxes for certain purposes.
5. Towns may raise ministerial taxes.
6. Towns may make by-laws as to prudential affairs.
7. Towns may make by-laws respecting cattle, &c.
8. By-laws remain in force till annulled.
SECTION 1. The inhabitants of every town in this State are declared to be a body corporate and politic, and by its corporate name may sue and be sued, prosecute and defend, in any court or elsewhere.
SECTION 2. All places incorporated by the name of parishes, with town privileges, are declared to be towns, and are entitled to the privileges, vested with all the powers, and subject to all the liabilities, of towns.
SECTION 3. Towns may purchase and hold real and personal estate for the public uses of the inhabitants, and may sell and convey the same; and may make any contracts which may be necessary and convenient for the transaction of the public business of the town.
SECTION 4. Towns may at any legal meeting grant and vote such sums of money as they judge necessary for the support of schools; for school-houses;for the maintenance of the poor; for laying out and repairing highways; for building and repairing bridges; for the repair of meeting-houses owned by the town, so far as to render them useful for town purposes; and for all necessary charges arising within the town.
SECTION 5 Towns may vote such sums of money as may be necessary to fulfil any existing contract made between the town and any settled minister before the first day of July, 1819; provided, no person shall be taxed for the purpose of fulfilling such contract, who shall have filed with the town clerk, before the assessment of such tax, a certificate declaring himself not to be of the religious persuasion or opinion of such minister.
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