provided that if such place be without its limits, the assent of the town within whose limits it may be established, shall be obtained therefor. Ib. § 27. 28. Any two or more towns may, at their joint expense, establish a quarantine ground for their common use, in any suitable place either within or without their limits; provided that if such place shall be without their limits, they shall obtain the assent of the town within whose limits such place may be. Ib. § 28. 29. The board of health in each seaport town may, from time to time, establish the quarantine, to be performed by all vessels arriving within the harbor of such town: and may make such quarantine regulations as they shall judge necessary for the health and safety of the inhabitants. Ib. § 29. 30. The quarantine regulations so established, shall extend to all persons, and all goods and effects, arriving in such vessels, and to all persons who may visit or go on board of the same. Ib. § 30. 31. The quarantine regulations aforesaid, after notice thereof shall have been given, in the manner before provided, shall be observed by all persons; and any person who shall violate any such quarantine regulations, shall forfeit a sum not less than five dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars. Ib. § 31. 32. The board of health, in each seaport town, may, at all times, cause any vessel arriving in any such port, when such vessel or the cargo thereof shall, in their opinion, be foul or infected, so as to endanger the public health, to be removed to the quarantine ground, and to be thoroughly purified, at the expense of the owners, consignees, or persons in possession of the same; and they may also cause all persons, arriving in or going on board of such infected vessel, or handling such infected cargo, to be removed to any hospital under the care of said board of health, there to remain under their orders. Ib. § 32. 33. If any master, seaman or passenger, belonging to any vessel, on board of which any infection may then be, or may have lately been, or suspected to have been, or which may have been at, or which may have come from, any port where any infectious distemper prevails, that may endanger the public health, shall refuse to make answer on oath, to such question as may be asked him, relating to such infection or distemper, by the board of health of the town to which such vessel may come, (which oath any member of said board may administer,) such master, seaman or passenger, so refusing, shall forfeit a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars; and, in case he be not able to pay said sum, he shall suffer six months imprisonment. Ib. § 33. 34. All expenses incurred on account of any person, vessel or goods, under any quarantine regulations, shall be paid by such person, or the owner of such vessel or goods, respectively. Ib. § 34. 35. The inhabitants of any town may establish, within the same town, and be constantly provided with, one or more hospitals for the reception of persons having the small pox, or other disease which may be dangerous to the public health. Ib. § 35. 36. All such hospitals shall be subject to the orders and regulations of the board of health, or a committee of such town, appointed for that purpose. Ib. § 36. 37. No such hospital shall be established within one hundred rods of any inhabited dwelling house, situated in any adjoining town, without the consent of such adjoining town. Ib. § 37. 38. When any hospital shall be so established, the physicians, the persons inoculated or sick therein, the nurses, attendants, and all persons who shall approach or come within the limits of the same, and all such furniture or other articles as shall be used or brought there, shall be sub ject to such regulations as may be made by the board of health, or the committee appointed for that purpose. $ 39. Ib. 39. When any disease dangerous to the puhlic health, shall break out in any town, the board of health thereof, shall immediately provide such hospital or place of reception for the sick and infected, as they shall judge best for their accommodation and the safety of the inhabitants; and such hospitals and places of reception, shall be subject to the regulations of the said board of health, in the same manner as herein before provided for established hospitals; and the said board of health may cause such sick and infected persons to be removed to such hospitals or places of reception, unless the condition of the sick or infected person be such as not to admit of his removal without danger to his health; in which case the house or place where such person shall remain shall be considered as an hospital, to every purpose aforesaid; and all persons residing in, or in any way concerned with the same, shall be subject to the regulations of the said board of health, as before provided. Stat. of 1837, ch. 244, § 2. St. of 1848, ch. 119. 40. When any disease dangerous to the public health, is found to exist in any town, the selectmen and board of health shall use all possible care to prevent the spreading of the infection, and to give public notice of infected places to travelers, by displaying red flags at proper distances, and by all other means which in their judgment shall be most effectual for the common safety. R. S. ch. 21, § 41. St. 1838, ch. 158. 41. If any physician or other person, in any of the hos pitals or places of reception before mentioned, or who shall attend, approach or be concerned with the same, shall violate any of the regulations lawfully made in relation thereto, either with respect to himself, or his or any other person's property, the person so offending shall, for each of fence, forfeit a sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. 1b. 42. St. 1838, ch. 158. 42. When any householder shall know that any person within his family is taken sick of the small pox, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, he shall immediately give notice thereof to the selectmen or board of health of the town in which he dwells; and if he shall refuse or neglect to give such notice, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. R. S. ch. 21, § 43. St. 1838, ch. 158. St. 1840, ch. 39. 43. When any physician shall know that any person whom he is called to visit, is infected with the small pox, or any other disease dangerous to the public health, such physician shall immediately give notice thereof to the selectmen, or board of health of the town in which the diseased person may be; and every physician, who shall refuse or neglect to give such notice, shall forfeit for each offence a sum not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars. Ib. § 44. 44. Each town may, at any meeting, make suitable provision for the inoculation of the inhabitants with the cow pox, under the direction of the board of health of each town, or of a committee chosen for that purpose; and they shall raise all necessary sums of money, to defray the expenses of such inoculation, in the same manner as other town charges are paid. Ib. § 45. 45. All forfeitures, under the preceding sections of this chapter, shall enure to the use of the town where the offence shall have been committed; and they may be recovered by the treasurer, as provided in the fifteenth chapter of R. S., on complaint before the police court of such town, or before any justice of the peace of the county, in which the offence shall have been committed. Ib. § 46. MEASUREMENT, INSPECTION &c., OF CERTAIN ARTICLES OF MERCHANDIZE, 1. WOOD, BARK AND CHARCOAL. 1. Appointment of wood and bark measurers. 2. Dimensions of cord wood. 3. Penalty for selling wood and bark not measured. 4. Fees of measurers. 5. Wood brought in by water how measured. 6. Carters to have tickets, &c. 8. Illegal baskets to be seized. ures. 11. Forfeitures, how recovered. 1. The selectmen of each town shall, in the month of March or April, annually, appoint as many measurers of fire-wood and bark, as the inhabitants shall at their annual meeting determine, unless the inhabitants themselves at such annual meeting shall choose them; and every such measurer so appointed or chosen shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of the duties of his office. R. S. ch. 15, $33, § 38. 2. All cord wood exposed to sale shall be either four feet, three feet, or two feet long, including half the carf; and the wood being well and close laid together, shall measure in quantity equal to a cord of eight feet in length, four feet in width, and four feet in height. R. S. ch. 28, $ 200. 3. If any fire-wood or bark, exposed to sale in any market, or upon any cart or other vehicle, shall be offered for sale before the same shall have been measured by a public measurer of wood and bark, and a ticket thereof signed by him delivered to the driver, certifying the quantity of wood which the load contains, the name of the driver, and the town in which he resides, the driver and owner of such wood or bark shall, for each load thereof, severally forfeit the sum of five dollars to the use of the town where such wood or bark shall be so offered for sale. Ib. § 201. 4. The measurers of wood and bark in any town shall |