PHILLIPS LEE GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQ., GOVERNOR. 1097

hydrants and water plugs on the said streets, lanes, alleys and
thoroughfares, and to prescribe penalties for improperly inter-
fering with or injuring such water pipes, hydrants or water
plugs, or for improperly interfering with any street lamp or
lamp post; 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 con-
tracts 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.

Board of Police Commissioners.

59. On August the first, 1912, or as soon thereafter as may
be practicable, the commissioners of Cambridge shall elect one
sober and discreet person who shall have been a resident of the
City of Cambridge for three successive years next preceding
the day of his appointment, who, together with the State's
attorney for Dorchester county and the Mayor of Cambridge,
shall constitute and be known as the board of police commis-
sioners for the City of Cambridge. The police commissioners
so appointed by the commissioners of Cambridge shall hold
office for four years from the date of his appointment, and if
the other two members of said board of police commissioners,
constituted as herein provided, shall be affiliated with the same
political party, then the third member of said board to be
appointed as herein provided, shall be affiliated with the other
one of the two leading political parties. If the office of police
commissioner shall become vacant by reason of the death, res-
ignation or misconduct or inability of the incumbent to per-
form the duties thereof, said vacancy shall be filled by the com-
missioners of Cambridge as prescribed above, and every police
commissioner, so appointed, shall possess all the qualifications
prescribed by this section, and shall hold his office for four
years from the date of his appointment and until his successor
is appointed and qualified; and for such services shall receive
the sum of one hundred dollars per year. The Mayor of Cam-
bridge shall be president of the board of police commissioners,
and the town clerk and treasurer of Cambridge shall perform
the duties of secretary to the said board of police commis-
sioners.