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power to regulate, control or prohibit upon any land within the corporate
limits of Cambridge, by ordinance, the building, erection or the mainte-
nance of any building or structure that works an injury to any person or
the enjoyment of property, and to prevent the planting, raising or culti-
vating of any crop, of any kind, the existence of which within said cor-
porate limits injures any person in health, safety, or the enjoyment of
property, and the said Commissioners., are further authorized and empow-
ered, in their discretion, at any time, by order to be set forth in their
minutes, to increase the salary of any officer or employee from the amount
now fixed by the Charter of Cambridge to such an amount as may be
reasonable and necessary to procure the services that are required to exe-
cute the functions of the municipal government of the city, this to apply
to only such officers or employees as are elected or appointed by the Com-
missioners of Cambridge, or the Police Commissioners of Cambridge.+

1920, ch. 211. 1924, ch. 128. 1929, ch. 238.

65. The "Commissioners of Cambridge" shall, and it does have the
power to provide by ordinance, for locating, opening, grading, graveling,
surfacing, shelling, macadamizing, paving and curbing, or for regradingr
regraveling, refilling, remacadamizing, repaving or recurbing, using any
material or substance for such purpose, as in its discretion shall be most fit
and proper, and to change, locate or relocate from time to time, as need
requires, in doing any of the aforesaid street improving, to any street,
lane, alley or any public thoroughfare within the corporate limits of the
City of Cambridge, which street, lane, alley or any public thoroughfare
or part thereof is now held by it, condemned, ceded, dedicated or opened
as a public highway or thoroughfare, or which may hereafter be held by it,
condemned, ceded, dedicated, located, opened, widened, straightened or
altered, in any form, according to the laws and ordinances regulating the
same now enacted or that may hereafter be enacted and ordained, with
full power to change the grade line, width, length, course or direction of
any public street or public highway within the said corporate limits, and
to acquire land and property for the purpose of making any such improve-
ment by purchase from the owners, if possible, by agreement, with the
owners as to price, or by condemnation as provided by law, if unable to
acquire by purchase agreement.

To have the power to assess the cost of any such work or improvement,
such assessment not to exceed one-half of the cost thereof, upon any prop-
erty binding upon such street, lane, alley or highway or public thorough-
fare or part thereof, the amount to be assessed upon the property to be so
assessed that one-fourth of the total cost shall be upon the property on
one side of a street, and one-fourth of the total cost on the property on the
other side of a street, the assessments, to be upon the land on each side of
any such street, by front foot apportionment.

To have the power to collect any such sum or sums of money assessed
as aforesaid, in the same manner and by the same process now provided

+Sec. 2, ch. 99, 1920, repealed all laws inconsistent therewith.