sidering the places designated in section 11, chapter 20, Revised Laws, as described in the matter which follows herein; and a distinction should also be observed between an original, continuing responsibility on the part of the Boston police in certain places and the possession by them of permissive authority elsewhere.

5. Section 11 confers concurrent criminal jurisdiction upon the Suffolk County courts as applying to crimes committed:

"On the islands or waters in Boston harbor which lie northerly of a line drawn westwardly from the most easterly point of Point Allerton through the most northerly point of Moon Island to the channel of Neponset river, and westerly of a line drawn from Point Allerton to the easternmost point of the Outer Brewster Island, and from thence to Short Beach at the line dividing the towns of Revere and Winthrop."

6. The provision just quoted excludes from the jurisdiction of the Suffolk courts, and therefore from the authority of the Boston police which rests upon such jurisdiction, certain islands lying to the south of the line laid down. But as section 11 of chapter 20 further confers such jurisdiction and police authority "in any portion of the town of Hull, " and as some of those islands are parts of the town of Hull they are again apparently brought under jurisdiction and authority.

7. Similar jurisdiction and authority are conferred by section 11 with respect to a part of the mainland of the town of Hingham, formerly known as "Downer Landing," and now as "Crow Point." This provision of section 11 is based upon a special act passed in 1880, when there was a picnic garden at that place and in the summer season great numbers of persons were daily carried thither in steamers from Boston. The act permitted the Boston police commissioners, if so requested by an inhabitant of that part of Hingham, and if they themselves saw fit, to send one or more policemen with the picnic parties. The whole situation is now different.

The garden is abandoned, no excursion parties are carried, even the name of the locality is changed; and there is no possibility that Boston policemen shall ever be sent thither except on the formal application of the selectmen of the town of Hingham, made under a statute which applies to all cities and towns in the state.

8. To an even greater degree the change in the situation which existed when the early acts were passed is true of the town of Hull. In 1863, the year of the first act which gave concurrent criminal jurisdiction therein to Suffolk County courts, the inhabitants numbered but two hundred and eighty-five, fishermen and their families for the greater part, scattered along miles of shore, with no police, and separated by great distances from the courts of Plymouth County. At the present time the town has a permanent population of two thousand and a summer population of about ten thousand; an organized and uniformed town police under a chief; lockups and stations; a detachment of the metropolitan park police in charge of the park reservation; and quick and easy communication by railway and railroad with the courts of Plymouth County, to which all cases arising in the town are taken.

In the changed conditions and the lack of necessity for interference in the affairs of a self-governing town and county, the Suffolk County courts have apparently ceased to regard their concurrent jurisdiction as of public utility, if they ever so regarded it, for no record of its exercise in more than a generation can be found.

Any attempt by the Boston police in the present situation to interfere with the local policing of the town of Hull, when they are clearly under no legal obligation so to do and their authority save as agents of a court, even should they wish to exercise it, is very doubtful, would be as indefensible as a similar interference in the affairs of any other independent municipality.

9. The Boston police will confine their official efforts to the limits of the city of Boston, its harbor and its

islands, with the qualifications noted in section 1; and except that the boats of the harbor police will patrol, regulate and render assistance within the water areas assigned by law to the supervision of the police or the harbor master, no member of the force shall pass beyond such limits without the permission prescribed in the rules, unless to serve a process of court or in an emergency, such as the pursuit of a criminal or the rescue of persons or property.

RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

The police department of the city of Boston consists of a police commissioner, appointed by the governor with the advice and consent of the executive council, a secretary, a police force, a reserve police force, and matrons, clerks and other employees, all appointed by the police commissioner.

The police commissioner for the city of Boston, as head of the police department, and by virtue of the authority vested in him by law, has established the following rules and regulations for the government and discipline of the police department and for the conduct of other persons, not members of the police department, in so far as the affairs of such persons are subject to his lawful authority. He reserves the right to alter, amend, revoke or add to these rules and regulations at his discretion. In their application to the police department it is to be understood that they do not cover all cases which may arise, and that when found to be incomplete or apparently not adapted to particular emergencies they must be supplemented and interpreted by individual members with intelligence and discretion.

Hereafter in these rules and regulations the terms "Department," "Commissioner" and "Rules" shall be held to mean respectively the police department of the city of Boston, the police commissioner for the city of Boston, and the rules and regulations of the police department of the city of Boston.

RULE 1.- ORGANIZATION.

1. In the service of the department there are two general classes of persons, as follows:

(a.) The police force, hereafter known as "The Force," consisting of the members of the department and of the reserve police force, who are sworn and are clothed with police powers.

(b.) All persons performing other duties, as matrons, clerks, and other employees.

2. The territory and the waters under the authority of the department shall be divided into as many police divisions and on such lines as the commissioner shall determine from time to time.

There shall also be established within the department as separate and additional units of organization, the Commissioner's office, Superintendent's office, Chief clerk's office,

Bureau of Criminal Investigation,

City Prison,

House of Detention,

Signal service,

Property clerk's office,

Office of the inspector of claims,

Office of the inspector of carriages.

Hereafter in these rules the designation "commanding officers" shall mean officers regularly assigned to command divisions or other units of organization and also persons not members of the force who have been placed in charge of units of organization. The same designation shall apply as well, in so far as immediate necessity may require, to an officer temporarily in command, whatever his grade. Divisions shall be designated as such, and units of organization as “units."

RULE 2. GRADES AND RANKS.

1. The police force shall be organized under the following grades, ranking in the order named:

Superintendent,

Deputy superintendent,

Chief inspector of police,

Captain,

Inspector of police,

Lieutenant,

Sergeant,

Patrolman,

Patrolman of the reserve police force.