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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

Shall make
contracts for
furnishing
lights, etc.

(25.) To provide proper and suitable lights on the public-
streets, and to make contracts for furnishing such lights, to
pass all ordinances for defining the duties of all town officers,
where not fixed by the charter to require bond, and to approve
the same in order to secure the faithful performance of all
contracts entered into by the Commissioners, and by ordinance
to require any and all things to be done which will promote
the welfare, good government and prosperity of the people
of the town, and to forbid whatever that will oppress or injure
them in their persons and property.

COMPENSATION OF THE MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS.

Compensation
of Mayor and
Commission'rs

60. Each of the five Commissioners of Cambridge shall
receive an annual compensation of fifty dollars, and the Mayor
shall receive, besides his compensation as Commissioner, an,
annual sum of fifty dollars as Mayor, and neither the Mayor
nor the Commissioners shall receive any other or further com-
pensation whatsoever from the corporate funds. Said com-
pensation shall begin on the first day of April, in the year
nineteen hundred, and shall be paid in quarterly instalments.

FUND TO BE CONTRIBUTED BY THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.

Sum of money
appropriated
by County
Commission'rs

61. The County Commissioners of Dorchester County on
the first day of October, in each year, shall pay to the Commis-
sioners of Cambridge the sum of twelve hundred dollars out
of the taxes levied and collected for roads in said county, to
be applied by said Town Commissioners to the corporate pur-
poses of said town.

THE MUNICIPAL POLICE.

Municipal
police.
Rights and
powers.

62. The chief bailiff and the sub-bailiffs and the members
of the police force shall be peace officers in said town, and for
maintaining order, peace and good conduct therein they shall
have the powers, rights and authority of constables, with such
special or further authority as peace officers as may be given
them by law or ordinance, subject to the authority of the
Mayor and the Board of Commissioners; the chief bailiff shall
have under his supervision the sub-bailiffs, the members of the
police force and all special policemen, and it shall be his duty
to observe the conduct of the sub-bailiffs and the members of
the police force, and make known to the board any miscon-
duct or delinquency on their part or on the part of any of the
Commissioners, or a majority of them, between the 15th day
of September and the 1st day of October, in each year, shall
make the annual appointment of the police force for the town,
their term of service to begin on the ist day of October and.