48 EARLY QUARANTINE ARRANGEMENTS OF SALEM. 



any meeting legally called for the purpose, elect a mem- 

 ber out of the same Ward, to supply his place. 



[Sect. 2.] Be it further enacted, That it shall be the 

 duty of the Board of Health, and each member thereof, 

 to examine into all nuisances and other causes injurious to 

 the health of the inhabitants ; whether the same shall be 

 caused by stagnant waters, drains, common sewers, slaugh- 

 ter-houses, tan-yards, fish, fish-houses, docks, necessaries, 

 hog-sties, putrid animal or vegetable substances, or any 

 other cause of whatever kind, which in his or their opinion 

 may be injurious to the health of the inhabitants as afore- 

 said. And upon complaint on oath being made to any 

 Justice of the Peace by any member of said Board of 

 Health, or other person, that he suspects any of the nuis- 

 ances or causes aforesaid to exist in any dwelling-house, 

 cellar, store, other building, ship or vessel, it shall be the 

 duty of such Justice to issue his Warrant, directed to the 

 Sheriff of the County of Essex or his Deputies, or to any 

 Constable of the town of /Salem, commanding him or them 

 forcibly to enter, and, together with a member of said Board 

 of Health, to search the same in the day time, and upon 

 the discovery of such nuisance, or other cause, injurious 

 to the health of the inhabitants, to remove the same. 



Provided however, That no Sheriff, or Deputy Sheriff, 

 or Constable, shall execute any civil process, either by ar- 

 resting the body or attaching the goods and chattels of 

 any person or persons, under color of any entry made for 

 the purposes aforesaid, unless such service could by law 

 have been made without such entry ; and all services so 

 made under color of such entry, shall be utterly void, and 

 the officer making such service shall be considered as a 

 trespasser to all intents ab initio. And any person or 

 persons who shall resist such search, shall forfeit and pay 

 the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered in manner here- 

 inafter provided. And it shall be the duty of the Board 

 of Health, upon the discovery of any such nuisance or 



