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other cause injurious to the health of the inhabitants of 

 said town, forthwith to remove the same ; and upon com- 

 plaint to any Justice of the Peace within the said town or 

 in said County, made upon oath by one or more of the said 

 Board of Health, briefly therein stating the facts, together 

 with the costs of such removal, such Justice shall grant a 

 Warrant, therein expressing the substance of the said com- 

 plaint, directed to the Sheriff of the County of Essex, or 

 his Deputy, or any Constable of the town of Salem, com- 

 manding him to notify and require the person or persons in 

 whose possession, or upon whose estate such nuisance or 

 other cause aforesaid existed; or in case of his absence, his 

 agent or attorney, to appear forthwith before such Jus- 

 tice ; and if such person or persons shall neglect then and 

 there to appear, or appearing shall not shew good cause, to 

 the satisfaction of said Justice, why judgment should not 

 pass against him or them ; -the said Justice shall then an^ 

 there adjudge that such person or persons shall pay a fine 

 of thirteen dollars, and the costs of such removal, and double 

 costs of prosecution ; and shall thereupon issue his War- 

 rant, directed to the Sheriff of the county of Essex, or his 

 Deputy, or any Constable of the town of Salem, thereby 

 commanding him to levy the expence of said removal, to- 

 gether with said fine and double costs, on the goods and es- 

 tate, and for want thereof, on the body of the said occupier 

 or proprietor of the house, land, cellar, docks, store or 

 vessel in which said nuisances existed ; and said fine shall 

 be paid over to the Town Treasurer for the use of the said 

 town. Provided always, That any person or persons ag- 

 grieved at any judgment of a Justice, passed against him. 

 or them, as aforesaid, shall have a right to appeal there- 

 from, to the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, then 

 next to be holden within and for the County of Essex, 

 who shall hear and determine on such complaint, with or 

 without the intervention of a Jury, as the case may re- 

 quire, and thereupon render such judgment as the Justice 

 is herein before authorized to do in an original complaint 



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