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improvement, and stating what public thoroughfare the money was raised
by the certificate to improve, and the said Commissioners shall provide
by a levy of taxes, at the time of making the regular annual levy, for the
payment and retirement of the said certificate and all interest thereon,
with the right to the Commissioners to retire the said certificate before
its maturity, by the payment of the principal sum and interest to the time
of payment, the Commissioners not to pay any interest from the date of
the said payment of the certificate in full and the time when the certifi-
cate would mature on its face, that is, the Commissioners shall have the
right to redeem the said certificates at any time before the maturity of
the same, and the money for such purpose may be from other sources than
that specially levied, if there should be any money from any other source
that would be available. And provided that at no time shall the total
amount of such certificates, that is, the aggregate principal sums of all
outstandings, exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00), and
the credit hereby given or the power to borrow money for the said pur-
pose hereby granted, by the said means and manner, and for the said
purpose, shall be in addition to the rights and powers of the Commis-
sioners to borrow money upon the faith and credit of the City of Cam-
bridge, existing heretofore, before the passing of this Act, by which they
are legally authorized and empowered to borrow money for all purposes.
In the selling or negotiating of the said certificates of indebtedness, the
Commissioners may advertise the said certificates for sale by public bid,
or they may negotiate the same without any public sale, doing it direct
as regular negotiable paper. Any such certificates shall be signed by the
Mayor, the corporate seal shall be attached, attested by the Clerk to the
Commissioners; there shall be no coupons on the certificates, but it shall
recite on its face when the interest and the principal shall be due and
payable, and where payable.*

POLICE COMMISSIONERS.

1912, ch. 694, sec. 59.

66. On August the first, 1912, or as soon thereafter as may be practi-
cable, 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 Cam-
bridge, shall constitute and be known as the Board of Police Commis-
sioners for the City of Cambridge. The Police Commissioners so ap-
pointed 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

*Sec. 2. ch. 238. 1929. provided that nothing therein should affect any assessment
or tax levied before June 1, 1029.