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SECTION 1st i	It is hereby ord*i Inert	by the Port?, of Health appointed by
the Jloard of r3a.~ar	anil Aldereten rceet enft	©rranisr.© in the month of Hearth or as	*
Boon thereafter ae practicable by appointing cut of their own number a President and a Seoretary**1
SECT ION ?» It	1b	further ordained that	the Board of Health tho* appotrrteod and	or
orrgrniEod ehall	have the power to trJre such taeacuree ae they may deer? necessary	and
proper to Btop th© introduction and spreading in said City of Buy St* Lwiie of the yei:~o:r fevor, amll pex, or other infections disease#? te atop detain and esanine any poraon or pomons coning fron any place infected or reported to be infoctoA with «uch d?.3erABen| to prevent from ■?«*•**— *