Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised.
- Massachusetts
- Date:
- 1880
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual for the use of the Board of Health, Lunacy and Charity of Massachusetts : containing the general and special statutes under which its authority is exercised. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![Sect. 3. The board shall meet at the state house once in three months, and as much oftener as they may deem expedient. No member except the secretary shall receive any compensation, but the actual personal ex- penses of any member while engaged in the duties of the board shall be allowed and paid. Sect. 4. It shall be the duty of the board, and they are hereby instructed, to examine into and report what, in their best judgment, is the effect of the use of intox- icating liquor, as a beverage, upon the industry, pros- perity, happiness, health and lives of the citizens of the state. Also, what additional legislation, if any, is neces- sary in the premises. Sect. 5. The board shall elect a secretaiy, either from their own number or otherwise ; but when elected he shall be a member of the board and their executive officer. He shall perform and superintend the work prescribed in this, and such other duties as the board may require. He shall receive from the treasury, in quarterly payments, an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars and his necessaiy travelling expenses incurred in the performance of official duties, after the}' have been audited by the board and approved by the governor and council, and all other necessary expenses arising in his office shall be paid out of the treasury in the same manner as those of the different departments of the government. Sect. 6. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [Approved Jane 21, 1869. Ax Act concerning slaughter-houses and noxious and OFFENSIVE TRADES. [Statutes of 1871, chap. 167.] Section 1. Whoever in any city or town containing more than four thousand inhabitants,* erects, occupies or uses an}' building for carrying on therein the business of slaughtering cattle, sheep or other animals, or for melt- ing or rendering establishments, or for other noxious or offensive trades and occupations, or permits or allows said trades or occupations to be carried on upon premises owned or occupied by him or them, without first obtaining the written consent and permission of the mayor and al- dermen or selectmen of such city or town, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars for every month he or they so occupy or use such building or premises, and in like proportion for a longer or shorter time: pro- vided, that the terms of this section shall not apply to any building or premises now occupied or used for the trades or occupations before described ; but no person or per- sons or corporation now occupying or using any building or premises for the trades or occupations aforesaid, shall * Words in Italics stricken out in 1874. to meet once in three months, and serve with- out compen- sation. To examine into and re- port upon the effect of the use of intoxicating liquor as a beverage. Secretary of board, how elected; his duties, com- pensation, &c. When act takes effect. Board abol- ished, by 1879, 291, sect. 1. Slaughter- houses, &c, not to be erected in towns of more than four thou- sand in- habitants without permission. Gr. S. 26.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21069669_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
