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NORTH SHORE BREEZE Feb. 23, 1917. 
We are offering an unusual collection of 
PERENNIAL PLANTS 
And a choice lot of Conifers. 
NORTH SHORE NURSERIES & FLORIST CO., Beverly Farms 
F. E. COLE, Prop. 
Telephone, Beverly Farms 43 
We shall be better prepared than usual to store plants for the winter. 
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Report of Special Commission on Constabulary and 
State Police---A Summary of the Recommendations 
THE ESTABLISHMENT of a state-wide police system embracing every police activity in 
the commonwealth, under the authority of a state commissioner of police. The commis- 
sioner to appoint not more than five (5) deputy commissioners; each deputy commissioner to 
have charge, under the commissioner, ot some special branch or department of police work 
common to the entire State. 
‘He STATE TO BE DIVIDED into five administrative districts, each in charge of a dis- 
trict commissioner resident in the district, arid appointable by the state commissioner. Func- 
tion of district commissioners to be supervisory connecting links between state and local auth- 
oriues. Function of deputy commissioners to be personal departmental assistants with duties in 
the state at large. 
THE DISTRICT POLICE TO BE ABOLISHED, its detective division and other police 
functions taken over by the state commissioner of police, and its inspectorial duties trans- 
ferred to the existing state department or departments best fitted to handle them. 
METROPOLITAN PARK POLICE to be continued under administration of Metropolitan 
park commission, but subject to authority of state commissioner of police. 
LL, CITY AND TOWN POLICE and police chiefs appointable by local authority as at 
present, but subject to approval and removal by state commissioner under civil service rules. 
Alt POLICE IN ALL CITIES and towns to be placed under civil service. 
POLICE COMMISSIONER OF BOSTON to be ex-officio district commissioner also of one 
of the five state divisions to be known as “The metropolitan district” and to comprise 
Boston and the adjacent territory now known as the Metropolitan district. 
POLICE COMMISSION OF FALL RIVER to be relieved of its police duties, but to con- 
~ tinue its handling of excise matters. Police head and other officials to be appointed by 
‘mayor or city government, subject to approval of state commissioner as in case of all other 
‘cities and towns. 
MILITIA TO BE RELIEVED OF THE USUAL STRIKE, strike-riot, and other police 
work to which it is now liable, and to be subject hereafter for internal state service only 
upon call of the governor in time of grave public danger. 
OLICE DUTIES OF WHICH THE MILITIA is relieved to be undertaken by an organ- 
ization of mounted and unmounted policemen, to be designated by the state commissioner 
of police from ranks of city policemen now in active service, but to remain in respective 
cities until called for emergency service. 
SUMMER CAMP TO BE ESTABLISHED for two weeks’ annual training of city police 
as above, and for such other detachments as commissioner may elect. 
HE GRADUAL DEVELOPMENT of an automobile and motorcycle rural patrol, whose 
principal function shall be the patrolling of highways, the enforcement of automobile laws, 
the protection of thinly populated sections, and the prevention and prosecution of rural crime 
in cooperation with local authorities. 
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