JOHN WALTER SMITH, ESQ., GOVERNOR.

current year. Within five days before the first day of
November the Town Collector shall deliver to the chief
bailiff a list of those persons who have not paid the exemp-
tion fee, and said officer shall place their names on his
list of persons liable to service. The Town Collector shall
make monthly, returns to the Town Clerk and Treasurer of
the moneys collected, and shall pay over the same to him.
Any person who fails to pay, when called on by the col-
lector, may still pay at any time before a list is delivered
to the chief bailiff. After said list has been delivered to
the chief bailiff, he shall pay fifty cents additional, in
order to exempt him from service.

The Commissioners shall have full power and authority
to pass one or more ordinances for executing, carrying out
and enforcing the provisions hereof, and providing system-
atic arrangements in respect thereto.

CONDEMNATION OF LAND FOR CORPORATE USE.

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74. Whenever land or other property shall be needed for
streets, wharves, market-houses, engine-houses, and for any
other corporate purposes, the Commissioners of Cambridge
shall have full power and authority to take proceedings, as
hereinafter set forth for the condemnation of such lands or
other property needed ; and upon such condemnation under
said proceedings, and on the payment or tender of the money
adjudged to be paid, the lands or other property condemned
shall vest in the Commissioners in fee simple. Before taking
the proceedings the Commissioners ought to ascertain whether
they can buy the property from owners at a fair price. But
the omission to negotiate shall not effect the right of the Com-
missioners to take proceedings. For condemning lands or
property as aforesaid the Commissioners shall proceed as fol-
lows, to wit:

Condemnation
of land or
other property

First. They shall issue a warrant signed by the Commis-
sioners, or at least three of them, authenticated by the corporate
seal, directed to the sheriff of Dorchester County, command-
ing him to summon twenty male residents of the said town,
over the age of twenty-five years, who are not interested in
the property to be condemned, and not related or connected,
by blood or marriage, with the owners of the said property,
that out of said number an impartial jury of twelve men may
be selected.

Second. The warrant shall designate the court-house in said
town for the place of meeting, unless for a cause, deemed by
the Commissioners sufficient, a different place in said town be

Shall summon
jury of
condemnation