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one of the two leading political parties. If the office of Police Commis-
sioner shall become vacant by reason of the death, resignation or mis-
conduct or inability of the incumbent to perform the duties thereof, said
vacancy shall be filled by the Commissioners 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 Cambridge 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 Commissioners.

1912, ch. 694, sec. 60.

67. It shall be the duty of the secretary to the Board of Police Com-
missioners to keep the minutes of the proceedings of the board, take
charge, by direction of the board, of all property seized or found by the
police, and to perform all clerical and proper duties required of him by
the said board; and it shall further be the duty of the said secretary to
prepare forms of all poll books and election returns, warrants of arrest
and commitments to be used by the judges of election for all city elections
held in the City of Cambridge, to superintend carefully the printing there-
of, and to perform such other clerical duties devolved upon said board by
law in connection with all elections held in said city, as may be required
of him by said board.

1912, ch. 694, sec. 60A.

68. The duties of the Board of Police Commissioners hereby created
shall be as follows: They shall at all time of the day and night, within
the boundaries of the City of Cambridge, both on land and on the water,
preserve the public peace, prevent crime and arrest offenders, to protect
the rights of persons and property, guard the puiblic health, preserve order
at primary meetings and elections, State, county and municipal, and at
all public meetings and conventions and on all public occasions, and in all
places; prevent and remove nuisances in all streets and highways, waters
and water-courses, and all other places; provide a proper police force in
case of every fire for the protection of firemen and property, protect
strangers, emigrants and travelers at all steamboat and railroad stations,
see that all laws relating to elections, and to the observance of Sunday,
and regarding gambling, intemperance, lotteries and lottery policies,
vagrants, disorderly persons and the public health are enforced, and also
to enforce all laws, ordinances of the City of Cambridge not inconsistent
with the sub-division of this Article, or of any law of the State which may
properly be enforceable by a police force. Any person charged with the
commission of a crime in the City of Cambridge and against whom crim-
inal process shall have issued, may be arrested upon the same in any part
of the State by the police force created under this sub-division of this