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§§ 196-199 2. To make rules and regulations for the government of said board, its officers and its meetings.

3. To make and enforce any and all needful rules and regulations for the prevention and cure, and to prevent the spread of any contagious, infectious or malarial diseases among persons and domestic animals.

4. To establish quarantine, and isolate any person affected with contagious or infectious disease.

5. To isolate, kill, or remove any animal affected with contagious or infectious disease.

6. To remove or cause to be removed any dead, decaying, or putrid body, or any decayed, putrid or other substance that may endanger the health of persons or domestic animals.

7. To condemn and cause to be destroyed any impure or diseased article of food that may be offered for sale.

8. To superintend the several boards of health in cities, villages, and towns, and the county boards of health of the several counties.

9. To empower and direct the superintendent of public health to do or cause to be done any or all the things mentioned in subdivisions 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of this section.

§ 196. The superintendent of public health shall be paid a yearly salary of five hundred dollars in equal installments, at the end of every three months. He shall also be paid five cents per mile for every mile actually and necessarily traveled in the performance of his official duties, and such other sum or sums as he may necessarily pay or become liable to pay, for the official books, records and papers kept by him, and for the printing of his reports, and such circulars and blanks as may be required for the proper conduct of the business of his office, not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of three hundred dollars. The accounts of the superintendent for his mileage and said other expenses of his office shall be audited by said territorial board of health, and the same together with his salary shall be paid out of the territorial treasury.

§ 197. The president and vice-president of the said territorial board of health shall receive no compensation for the performance of their official duties, but they shall be paid five cents for every mile actually and necessarily traveled, and such other necessary expenses as they may pay or incur in attending the meetings of said board or in the performance of their duties as such officers.

§ 198. At the first meeting of said territorial board of health they shall appoint two persons from each county, residents thereof, who, with the district attorney of the county from which they are appointed, shall constitute a county board of health for such county. The district attorney shall be the president of such county board of health. One of the persons so appointed from each county shall be learned in medicine, and shall hold a license to practice medicine from the superintendent of public health, who shall be superintendent of health in the county for which he is appointed. The other person so appointed by said board from such county shall be vice-president of the county board of health.

§ 199. The president of each county board of health shall preside at the meetings thereof, and in his absence the vice-president shall perform the duties of president. The county superintendent of health shall be ex-officio secretary of the board of health of his county. The said county superintendent of