42 EARLY QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS OF SALEM. 



Hospital for innoculating for the small pox & the follow- 

 ing persons were chosen, viz : Jonathan Peele j'", John 

 Gardner y^ 3^ Capt. Sam^ Williams, Eich'^ Ward, &Rich^ 

 Manning. 



"Voted, that one person be a Comm®. to wait on Doc : 

 Holy oak to ask his present attendance here & that Nathan 

 Goodale be this person." 



"Voted, that a treasurer be chosen for the Hospital." 



" Voted, that Joseph Henfield be this Treas^" 



"Voted, that the town make choice of Edw^ A. Hol- 

 yoak Esq. as a physician to take care of the Hospital for 

 innoculating for the small pox." 



"Voted, that the overseers treat with Doc. Holyoak 

 respecting the terms in his attending at the hospital." 



"Voted, that the twenty one Articles now read to the 

 town respecting the Hospital be adopted & accepted." 

 Town Meeting, Mch. 21, 1777. 



"Voted, that an addition of one person be added to the 

 Overseers for the Hospital for innoculation for the small 

 pox, Sg that John Gardner be this person." 



"Voted, that the town impower the overseers of the 

 Hospital to make application to three Justices, or if 'tis 

 fomid necessary to the Court of Sessions within this 

 County for liberty to open s** Hospital." 



" Voted, that this meeting be adjourned to the 10"^ of 

 April next, & that the town then consider those seventeen 

 setts, or Eooms who applied to go in to the Hospital, but 

 was excluded by lot, whether they shall have the preference 

 to any other of the inhabitants of the town." 

 Town Meeting, April 10, 1777. 



"Voted, that those seventeen setts of persons who ap- 

 plied to go into the Hospital, but was excluded by Lot, 

 shall not have any preference as to admission any more 

 than any other inhabitant of this town." 



