780 HEALTH—STATE BOARD OF HEALTH. [ART. 43.

ber, while engaged in the duties of the board, and such necessary

expenses of the board as the comptroller of the treasury shall
audit, on presentation of an itemized account, with vouchers, and
the certificates of the board, shall be allowed and paid; provided,
said expenses shall not exceed, annually, the sum of twelve hun-

dred dollars, which is hereby appropriated from any money in the
treasury not otherwise appropriated.

1886, ch 22, sec. 1.

8. Whenever the State board of health shall nave cause to
believe that there is danger of cholera, small-pox, or other dan-
gerous or infectious disease invading this State or country, it shall
be the duty of the said board to take such action and adopt and

enforce such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to
prevent the introduction or spread of such infectious or dangerous
disease within this State; and any person or persons or corpora-
tion refusing or neglecting to obey such rules and regulations,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon con-
viction thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction, be fined not
less than fifty dollars nor exceeding five hundred dollars, for every
such offence.

Ibid sec. 2

9. The board of county commissioners of the several counties
in this State, shall, ex-officio, constitute a local board of health for
their respective counties, and shall have and exercise all the duties
of a board of health, as provided in this article, except in cases
where the charter of any city or town in the State contains pro-
visions inconsistent therewith.

Ibid. sec. 3

10. Such local board of health shall each appoint annually, in
the month of May, or as soon thereafter as practicable, a county
health officer, who shall be a well educated physician, and who,
by virtue of such appointment, shall be secretary of such board
of health, and the executive officer; provided, that such health
officer so appointed shall, if required by the board of county com-
missioners, render such medical and surgical service as may be
needed by persons confined in the county jall or other county
institutions.