HARVARD 47*60 This Report was presented to the Legislature, in the House of Representatives, April 25, 1850; when it was laid upon the table, and two thousand copies ordered to be printed. COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. In the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty-Nine. RESOLVE Relating to a Sanitary Survey of the State. Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Council, be and he is hereby authorized to appoint three persons to be Commissioners, to prepare and report, to the next General Court, a plan for a Sanitary Survey of the State, embracing a statement of such facts and suggestions as they may think proper to illustrate the subject. The Commissioners shall be paid, for the time actually spent in the discharge of their duty, and for their necessary travel, the same compensation that is paid to the members of the General Court; and also for blanks and circulars used, and for postage and other necessary expenses paid, in said commission; and a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, to purchase books on the subject; provided, however, that said books shall be considered the property of the Commonwealth, and shall be deposited in the State Library when the commission shall be dissolved: provided, the whole expense of said commission shall not exceed five hundred dollars; and that warrants be drawn accordingly. Passed. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, May 1, 1849. IN SENATE, May 2, 1849. JOSEPH BELL, President. Passed. May 2, 1849.-Approved. GEO. N. BRIGGS. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. To all Persons to whom these Presents shall come, WHEREAS, by a Resolve of our Legislature, approved by our Governor, the second day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, entitled "Resolve relating to a Sanitary Survey of the State," it is provided, "that His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Council, be and he is hereby authorized to appoint three persons to be Commissioners, to prepare and report, to the next General Court, a plan for a Sanitary Survey of the State, embracing a statement of such facts and suggestions as they may think proper to illustrate the subject:" CIDAM SUB LIBERS Now, THEREFORE, be it known, that we, by our Governor, with the advice and consent of the Council, confiding in the ability of LEMUEL SHATTUCK, of Boston, NATHANIEL P. BANKS, Jr., of Waltham, and JEHIEL ABBOTT, of Westfield, do hereby appoint them Commissioners for the purposes aforesaid, and enjoined in the Resolve above recited, with all the powers and authority, and subject to the duties and obligations which are or may be by law imposed upon them in their said capacity. By His Excellency the Gov-1 ernor, with the advice and consent of the Council. In testimony whereof, we have caused the seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, the third day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fortynine, and of the Independence of the United States the seventy-third. WM. TUFTS, Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth. |