1198 HEALTH. [ART. 43

The board shall have authority to send their secretary or a
committee of the board to any part of the State at any time
when necessary to investigate the cause of any special or
unusual sickness or mortality. In the event of an epidemic
or pestilential disease occurring in any county, city or village
of the State the board shall forthwith cause all needful sani-
tary measures and precautions to be taken which the emergency
may call for and which may be consistent with law, and shall
be approved by the governor, said approval to be expressed in
writing; and upon the application of said board, with the
approval of the governor, the comptroller is hereby authorized
to draw his warrant upon the treasurer in favor of the board
for an amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to be paid
out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, to be applied
and expended under the direction of the governor and the said
board of health in carrying out such needful sanitary measures
and precautions.

1888, art. 43, sec. 4. 1880, ch. 438, sec. 5.

4. At their first meeting, or as soon as a competent and
suitable person can be secured, the board shall elect a secre-
tary who shall be an educated physician and experienced in
sanitary science and who, by virtue of such election, shall be
a member of the board and their executive officer. The board
may elect one of their own number secretary, in which case
the governor shall, with the advice and consent of the senate,
appoint another member to complete the full number of the
board.

Ibid sec. 5. 1880, ch. 438, sec. 6. 1898, ch. 312.

5. The secretary shall hold office as long as he shall faith-
fully discharge the duties thereof, but may.be removed for just
cause at a regular meeting of the board, a majority of the
members voting therefor; he shall keep a record of the trans-
actions of the board and an account of all expenditures by
them; he shall, whenever necessary or practicable, correspond
and consult with boards of health of other States, and with
the local boards and health officers in this State, and secure
an interchange of all useful sanitary information, especially
respecting the causes, treatment and progress of epidemics;
he shall keep on file all reports received from such boards and
all correspondence relating to the duties of this board; he
shall prepare blank forms of returns and such instructions as
may be necessary, and forward them to the several local boards