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MUNICIPAL CHARTERS

Cambridge that the Charter of said municipal corporation
be, and the same is hereby amended by repealing and
reenacting, with amendments, Subsections (e) entitled
"Extracts" and (f) entitle "Use" of Section 29 to read as
follows:

29. Records; minute, ordinance, general record
books.

(e)    Extracts. Extracts from any of the
municipal record books, copies from any papers or
documents, recorded therein, and copies of any ordinance
set out in the ordinance book shall be admissible in
evidence, when pertinent and relevant, in any of the
courts of this State, for before any justice of the peace
thereof,] when verified by a certificate signed by the
town clerk and authenticated by the corporate seal,
provided, that the Clerk of the Circuit Court for
Dorchester County, when the extract or copies are to be
used outside of the said county, shall certify by his
hand and the seal of the said court that the person who
verifies the said extract or copy is the Town Clerk of
Cambridge; and provided, that no extract shall be made by
the 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repealed, he shall state the fact in his certificate.

(f)    Use. In [the Circuit Court for] ANY
COURT IN 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 fat the rate of ten cents for every
hundred words, embraced in any extract or copy]
COMPENSATION AT THE RATE THAT MAY BE FROM TIME TO TIME
established for any copy or extract of said records but
no compensation shall be paid for the extracts or copies
for the use of the Commissioners [, 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.

SECTION 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this
Resolution shall become effective the 12th day of March,
1974.

APPROVED this 21st day of January, 1974.