History of Westchester County, New York — Passage 35
[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 44 IIISTOKY OK WKSTCHKST FR COFNTY. the Yonkers police was organized in 1871 directed that the commission should consist of the president of the village, the supervisor of the town, the senior justice of the peace, the city treasurer and the re-ceiver of taxes. Made up in this way the first Hoard consisted of Messrs. Robert P. (Jetty, Ethan Flagg, Augustus Van Cortlandt, George W. Cobb and Wil-liam W. Woodworth, who held those offices respec-tively in the order named. As their successors, Mes-srs. James C. Courter, Thomas Smith, Lyman Cobb, Jr., and Kellogg Francis were members of the police commission. In June 1872 however, when Yonkershail become a city, the method of forming the Hoard was changed. It was provided that its members should be appointed by the Common Council. Now they are ap-