The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1905-08-10
CITIZENS MASS MEETING.

CITIZENS MASS MEETING.
The citizens Of Brandon held q
mass meeting at the court house Fri
day afternoon for the purpose Of dis
cussing the fever situation and urging
the board Of mayor and aldermen to
enforce a more rigid quarantine
against infected points. L. s. May
stated the object Of the meeting and
Senator McLaurin was chosen chair
man. The mosquito theory was dis
cussed at length, and finally accepted
by the majority Of those present. A
resolution was passed asking the board
of mayor and alderman to call q
special meeting and employ some one
to meet all trains and see that no one
enters the town without q clean bill
of health.
In compliance with the citizens re-
quest the board held meeting i'm.
mediately and adopted the quar-
antine regulations Of 1898, which are
as follows:
Quarantine ordinance adopted by
the board Of Aldermen at Brandon,
at call meeting held on August 4,
1905.
CHAPTER 20.
Section /. That said town be and
the same is hereby declared to be
quarantined against all travel and
goods of any kind and character COM
ing from, through or by way of all
points infected with yellow fever.
Section 2. provides for the estab.
lishment of quarantine stations, when
deemed necessary and appointment
OF guards, etc.
Section 3. That quarantine offic.
ers, before entering upon their du-
ties shall take an oath for their faith.
full performance Of their duty, and
in case of failure to perform such
duty, the party SO failing or neg
Letting shall, on conviction before
the mayor, forfeit his salary and be
fined not less than $4,000
Section 4. That it shall be the
duty of quarantine officers to see that
no person or persons, or freights Of
any kind coming through any infected
district is permitted to enter sale
town.
Section 5. That any citizen o.
said town, who shall entertain any
stranger or traveller who has not {
written permit from the quarantine
officer, without first reporting sale
stranger or treveler to some member Q:
the Board of Health for examination
shall upon conviction thereof before
the mayor of said town, be fined thu
sum of $40.
Section 6. That any stranger O.
traveller entering said town, who pass
ed through, or come from any infect
ed district to which this ordinance i
applicable, shall on conviction befor
the mayor be fined the sum of $40. 90
Section 7. That che driver of any
hack, omnibus, wagon, dray or othe
vehicle who shall permit any strang
er, traveller or non vesident Of sait
town ride upon their said vehicles in
to said town, unless said person o
persons shall have a written permi
from the quarantine officer shall OF
conviction thereof before the mayor o
said town, be fined the sum of $40. o.
for each and every officer.
Section 8. That said quarantine
officers shall have the power to re
quire any person to take and subscribe
to an oath as to his or her place o
residence, and the cities and town
through which they may have passed
which said quarantine officers ar
hereby empowered to administer; b.
shall also have the power to summon
ia posse of citizens to assist in tn
lawful discharge of his duties as sucl
officers under the foregoing ordinances
1On motion, the mayor and Board o
Aldermen with DR.. A. G. McLauril
and DIR. J. T. b. Berry, were consti
tuteA as Board of Health for sal
town DIR. McLaurin as president.
On motion, II. L. McCaskill wa
appointed special quarantine Office
for said town, whose duty it shall b
to meet Jail trains and not permit an,
persons FOR freight to enter said tow
in violation Of the quarantine ordi
nances of this town.
On motion, it is ordered that H
L. McCasEill be and he is hereby al
lowed the gum of So per day, for hi
services as quarantine officer, to b
paid out Of the general funds.
Keep your vital organs in good con
dition if yoR would have healtl
through the maNarial season. Prick.
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