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Sect. 18. When any householder shall know that any person within his family and when any physician shall know that any person whom he visits, is sick with the small-pox, or any other contagious or malignant disease, dangerous to the public, health, such householder and such physician shall immediately give notice thereof to the Board of Health of the town, in such manner as they shall prescribe.

Sect. 19. Notice shall be given by the Local Boards of Health of all regulations made by them, by publishing the same in some newspaper of the town, or where there is no such newspaper, by posting them up in some public place or places of the town; and such notice of such regulations shall be deemed legal notice to all persons.

Sect. 20. It shall be the duty of every magistrate and other civil officer, and of every inhabitant of the State, to observe and assist in carrying into execution the orders, rules and regulations of the General and Local Boards of Health, and to aid the said Boards and their authorized agents, in the performance of their respective duties.

Sect. 21. The said Boards of Health, if it shall appear to them necessary or expedient, are authorized to require the sheriff of the county or his deputy, the marshal of the city, or any constable of the town, to perform any of the following duties:

1. To remove or destroy any article, decayed, putrid, or otherwise dangerous to the public health; or any other nuisance or cause of disease.

2. To remove any person or article infected with contagious or malignant disease, from one place to another.

3. To break open and enter in the day time any house, shop, or other building, or place, containing a person or article infected with small-pox or other contagious disease; or containing any nuisance dangerous to the public health.

4. To impress and take up convenient houses, lodging, nurses, attendants and other necessaries for the accommodation, safety, and relief of the sick.

Sect. 22. The charges for removing and cleansing any articles, and of securing the same, and of cleansing any house or other place, shall be paid by the owners thereof, at such rates and prices as shall be fixed by the Board of Health, under whose direction the same was done.

Sect. 23. Whenever the sheriff .of the county or his deputy, the marshal of the city, any constable of the town, or other officer, shall impress any men, or shall use any house, store or other place, or any property, for the accommodation or benefit of the sick, or for the storage of infected articles, as provided for in this act, the several parties interested shall be entitled to a just compensation therefor, to be paid by the town for which such persons have been employed, or for which such property has been used.

Sect. 24. All necessary expenditures incurred by any Local Board of Health, in the discharge of their official duties, shall be paid by their town or city, after being audited by the Secretary of the Board, and certified to be correct by a majority of the other members: provided, that in making any such expenditure of more than fifty dollars, in towns of less than two thousand inhabitants; and of more than one hundred dollars, in towns of more than two thousand and less than five thousand inhabitants; and of more than five hundred dollars, in towns of more than five thousand inhabitants, the said Board shall first obtain the approval of the selectmen of the town, or the mayor and aldermen of the city.

Sect. 25. Whenever any malignant or contagious disease shall prevail as an epidemic in any town, the Local Board of Health shall notify the General Board of Health of the same; and the said General Board of Health shall adopt, recommend, or carry into execution, such measures of prevention or mitigation, as they shall deem necessary or expedient.

Sect. 26. Any person who shall violate any order or regulation, prescribed in the sixteenth and eighteenth sections of this act, or who shall obstruct any member of any Local Board of Health, or any person acting under their authority, in the discharge of his duty, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence; and any person, who shall violate any of the provisions of the seventeenth and twenty-first sections, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars for each offence.

Sect. 27. Each of the said Local Boards of Health shall, in the month of January, annually, prepare and submit to the town, or to the city council, at the next meeting thereafter, a written report, containing an abstract of the proceedings and of the receipts and expenditures of the Board, during the next preceding year ending December thirty-first; and shall accompany the same with a statement of such facts and observations, as will exhibit the sanitary condition of the town and its inhabitants; and shall recommend such measures of improvement, as they may deem necessary or expedient; and they shall transmit a copy of their report, in a written or printed form, to the General Board of Health. And all reports printed by order of towns shall be in octavo form, on paper and page of uniform size, similar to the public documents of the State, and convenient for binding; and all written reports shall be on letter paper of common size and convenient for binding.