PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1095

entering the same; to open, have opened, build or construct, to
enclose, to keep open, to regulate and to keep in repair all nec-
essary and useful drains and sewers, and to demand and obtain
for the bailiff, employees, workmen and laborers in the services
of the town the right to enter any private property and premises
for the purpose of improving the condition of any such drain
or sewers, for opening the same when they have become closed
or obstructed, rebuild or repair them when they require rebuild-
ing or repairing, and also to provide penalties in the case of
persons who resist any employees, workmen or laborers in the
service of the town, and to forbid and prevent any parties or
persons from obstructing such drains or placing upon or over
any drain or sewer, coal, wood or heavy masses of any kind,
and from erecting buildings thereon, and to provide penalties
for obstructing or covering any drain or sewer with coal, wood
or other heavy mass, or with any building or for improperly
interfering with any such drain or sewers in said town; to
grant and regulate franchisee to electric light companies, power
companies, street railway companies, gas companies, telephone
companies, telegraph companies, and sewer or drain companies,
and to regulate the charges for service or for the products of
such companies as now" possess, or may hereafter obtain fran-
chises in said city, all such franchises shall be for a definite
term of years not exceeding twenty-five years, and be renew-
able at the discretion of the commissioners of Cambridge, and
shall especially set out the nature, right and duration of the
same, and no power or right not expressed in the franchise or
grant shall pass thereunder; and the said the commissioners of
Cambridge, notwithstanding anything that may be set out in
any such franchise, or grant, shall not have the power to divest
itself of the right to regulate and control the use of the rights
under any franchise granted or that may be granted by it, and
to fix and regulate the charges for services whenever they deem
the public interest may require it; to regulate the use of streets,
lanes and alleys in said city by railway or other tracks, gas or
other pipes, telegraph, telephone, electric light or other wires
and poles in, under, over and upon the same, and to require all
such wires to be placed under ground after such reasonable
notice as it may prescribe; to provide a series of conduits under
the streets, lanes and alleys of said city, or any part or parts
thereof, for the use of telegraph, telephone, electric light or
other wires, either by constructing said conduits itself or author-
izing their construction by such person or corporation, and upon
such terms as may be agreed upon; to require all such wires,
or any part, or parts thereof, and the poles carrying the same