EARLY QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS OF SALEM. 53 



lectmen of the town of Salem, by a certain law of this 

 Commonwealth, passed the twenty-second day of June, 

 one thousand seven hundred and ninety -seven, entitled 

 "An Act to prevent the spreading of contagious sickness,'' 

 shall be, and they hereby are transferred to and made 

 the duty of the said Board of Health, anything in said 

 law to the contrary notwithstanding. 



[Sect. 14. J Be it further enacted, That the said Board 

 of Health, be, and hereby are empowered from time to 

 time, to choose a suitable and discreet person to act as a 

 visiting Physician to said Board ; whose duty it shall be 

 to visit all vessels coming from any place or places in 

 which the said Board shall think any contagious sickness 

 prevails ; and such Physician shall be under direction of 

 said Board, and may be removed by them, whenever they 

 shall see cause. 



And whereas by the eleventh section of the Act of 

 this Commonwealth, entitled, "An Act to prevent the 

 spreading of contagious sickness," it is enacted, that each 

 town and district in this Commonwealth, may at their 

 meeting held in MarcJi or April annually, or at any other 

 meeting legally warned for that purpose, when they shall 

 judge it to be necessary, choose and appoint a Health 

 Committee, in the manner and for the purposes in said 

 eleventh section mentioned. 



[Sect. 15.] Be it enacted, That so much of said law 

 as respects the future appointment of a Health Commit- 

 tee for the town of Salem, be, and the same is hereby 

 repealed, and that the Board of Health to be appointed 

 by virtue of this Act, be, and they hereby are made and 

 shall be the Health Conmiittee for the town of Salem, 

 and be invested with all the powers and duties, which are 

 granted to or imposed upon said Health Committee in and 

 by said Act. 



[Sect. 16.] Be it further enacted, That all penalties 

 and forfeitures arising from this Act, except in those cases 

 in which it is herein otherwise provided, shall accrue to the 



