At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, held by adjournment on the 25th day of March, A.D. 1816 : The committee ... to whom was committed the petition of a number of the inhabitants, "that the sense of the town may be taken, whether the business and duties of the Board of Health cannot be as fully and more economically carried into effect by three or more suitable men, to be appointed by the selectmen and amenable to them;" have, at several meetings, taken the said petition, and the subject committed to them, into consideration

At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Boston, held by adjournment on the 25th day of March, A.D. 1816 : The committee ... to whom was committed the petition of a number of the inhabitants, "that the sense of the town may be taken, whether the business and duties of the Board of Health cannot be as fully and more economically carried into effect by three or more suitable men, to be appointed by the selectmen and amenable to them;" have, at several meetings, taken the said petition, and the subject committed to them, into consideration.

Author/creator	Boston (Mass.)
Other author/creator	Perkins, Thomas Handasyd, 1764-1854.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	[Boston] : [publisher not identified], [1816]
Description	1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 28 x 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Boston (Mass.). Board of Health (1799-1822) Public health--Massachusetts --Boston. Public health laws--Massachusetts --Boston.

Series	Early American imprints. Second series no. 37042. ^A575643
General note	Recommending that a committee be formed "to take the subject of the laws regarding the health of the town of Boston into consideration; and to confer with any committee appointed, or to be appointed by either branch of the legislature; with power to consent to such a modification of the existing laws as shall, in their opinion, best comport with the rights and interest of the town." Signed: T.H. Perkins, chairman. Boston, March 21, 1816.
General note	"The foregoing report was read and accepted by the town ... Attest, Thomas Clark, town-clerk."
General note	Printed area measures 22.6 x 17.0 cm.
References	Shaw & Shoemaker 37042
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 37042).
Genre/form	Broadsides.

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