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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
1821, containing, in the eighteenth section, provisions repugnant to those in the recited Sections of the Acts of March 10th. 1821 and March 15th 1821, has changed annuled and repealed the provisions contained in those sections “so far as they provide that certain expenses therein mentioned shall be at the charge of the State.”
It is for the Legislature, in their wisdom, to decide whether the general health and safety, would not be more effectually preserved from the sudden dangers arising from contagious and infectious diseases, by rendering the necessary expense incurred by towns in preventing or checking their progress, a charge against the State.
Prentiss Mellen,
To the Secretary of State.