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ing such sick or infected person or persons to and in a 

 separate house or houses, and by providing of nurses, ten- 

 dance and other assistance and necessaries for them, at the 

 charge of the party s themselves, their parents or masters 

 (if able), or otherwise at the charge of the town or place 

 whereto they belong. 



[Sect. 2.] And in case it happen any person or persons 

 to be visited with sickness in any other town or place than 

 that whereto they belong, and thereby occasion a charge to 

 such town, the selectmen shall lay the accompt thereof be- 

 fore the justices in court of general sessions of the peace, 

 within the county where the town lyes whereto such person 

 or persons belong ; and the justices, having adjusted the 

 accompt of such charge, and allowed so much thereof as 

 they judge reasonable, shall order payment thereof to be 

 made by the treasurer of such town, when the persons them- 

 selves, their parents or masters, are unable to pay the same. 

 And when it shall happen such indigent persons, not to be 

 inhabitants, or belonging to any town or place within this 

 province, and the proper charge thereof in case they need 

 reliefe, then the charge of their sickness shall be defreyed 

 out of the publick treasury of the province, by warrant 

 from the governour, with the advice and consent of the 

 council. 



And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 

 [Sect. 3.] That, if need so require, any two justices of 

 the peace may make out a warrant, directed to the sherifFe 

 of the county or his deput}^, or constables of the town or 

 place where any such sick person or persons shall be, re- 

 quiring them, or any of them, in his majesty's name, with 

 the advice and direction of the selectmen of the same, to 

 impress and take up convenient housing, lodging, nurses, 

 tendance and other necessaries, for the accommodation, 

 safety and relief of the sick. 



ESSEX INST. BULLETIN, VOL. XIV. 2 



