28 EARLY QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS OF SALEM. 



men which is as follows ; "We in conformity to the vote 

 of y® town making us a comittee to consider of some 

 sutable place for erecting a Pest House and making an 

 estimate of the charge of such a house, have attended 

 that service and are of opinion that Roach's point on the 

 Neck is the most sutable place for that purpose, and that 

 such a house may be erected & sutably finished at about 

 the cost of seven hundred pounds old Tenor ; which is 

 humbly submitted, by order of y^ Selectmen 



Benjamin Browne. 

 Salem, 11 May, 1747." 



Voted, that y^ same be accepted, and that y*^ sum of 

 four hundred pounds, old Tenor, be paid out of y*^ Town 

 Treasury toward erecting said House, provided y^ sum of 

 two hundred pounds, old Tenor, can be raised by sub- 

 scription, towards perfecting y^ same. 



Voted, that Roach's Point be y^ place for y^ erecting 

 said House. 



Voted, that M^. Stephen Putnam, Cap*. Jon^. Gardner, 

 Benj*. Brown Esq., M^. John Procter Jun^., &, Deacon 

 Beckford be a committee to get the said subscription and 

 to cause the said House to be erected, and to draw^ on the 

 Treasurer for the said four hundred pounds & lay out y® 

 same with what shall be obtained by subscription for y® 

 purpose aforesaid. 



[The subscription seems to have failed and on March 

 30, 1752, the proposal to build at the Town's charge is 

 negatived in Town Meeting.] 



In 1752 an act supplementing the provisions of the act 

 of 1701 in some essential particulars was passed in 

 these words : 



An act in addition to an act made and pass'd in the 

 thirteenth year of King William the third, intitled "An 

 act providing in case of sickness." 



