2166 ARTICLE 10.

Town Clerk unless he embodies in the same all that the municipal records

-contain about the matter in question; and provided further, that the said
Town Clerk, if called on for a copy of an ordinance, shall embrace with
the copy of the ordinance asked any amendments that may have been
made thereto, or if the same has been repealed, he shall state the fact in
his certificate.

In the Circuit Court for Dorchester County and before any justice of
the peace of said county, the record books themselves may be offered in
evidence to prove any relevant or pertinent matter contained in the same.
The Town Clerk shall be entitled to receive at the rate of ten cents for
every hundred words, embraced in any extract or copy, but no compensa-
tion shall be paid for the extracts or copies for the use of the Commis-

sioners, if made while the board is in session, at hours appointed by the
board. The record books shall be open for the inspection of any resident
of Cambridge, unless they are actually in use by the Commissioners or
the Town Clerk.

COMMISSIONERS.

1900, ch. 339, sec. 45. 1910, ch. 233, sec. 45 (p. 772). 1912, ch. 694, sec. 45.
47. The corporate authority, government, rights, powers, and preroga-

atives of Cambridge shall be vested in and exercised by five commission-

ers, who shall be known as ''The Commissioners of Cambridge," and shall
be elected as in this Article is provided. The three Commissioners who

shall be elected from Wards, 1, 4 and 5 at the election to be held on the
second Wednesday of July, 1912, as hereinafter provided, shall hold office
for four years from said second Wednesday of July and until their suc-

cessors are elected and qualified, and the two Commissioners who shall be
elected from Wards 2 and 3 an the election to be held on the second Wed-
nesday of July, 1912, as hereinafter provided shall hold office for two
years from said second Wednesday of July, 1912, and until their suc-

cessors are elected and qualified. The terms of office of all Commissioners

elected from each of said five wards at any regular election held under
this Article after the year 1912, shall be for a term of four years, and
until their successors are duly elected and qualified. The said Commis-
sioners shall be elected by ballot, one from each of the several wards, and
each ward shall vote separately for its Commissioner. No one shall be
eligible to be elected to the office of Commissioner unless on the day of
election, wherein he is elected, he shall be a qualified voter and entitled
to vote at the municipal elections of said town, and is then at least 25
years of age and has been a bona fide resident of said city for one year

and a bona fide resident of the ward which he seeks to represent for six

months next preceding the clay of such election and unless he or his wife
holds and possesses on the clay of such election and has held and possessed
for six months previous thereto real estate or leasehold property which is
assessed on the assessment books of said city as worth at least three hun-
dred dollars, provided, that in the case of leasehold property, the term

or duration of said leasehold interest shall not be less than 15 years.