Smallpox - Law and legislation - Massachusetts

At a Great and General Court or Assembly of His Majesties province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England, begun and held at Boston, upon Wednesday the 23d day of August, anno, 1721 . ... Whereas many persons in the town of Boston, are now visited with the small-pox ... Resolved, that no bells shall be tolled for the burial of persons that may die of that or any other distemper, but what the select-men of the town of Boston shall order and direct ..