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ORDINANCE CREATING THE OFFICE OF THE CITY PHYSICIAN AND SETTING DUTIES
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The of City Physician is hereby created and the President of the Board of Health shall be ex-officio City Physician, and it is made his duty to attend upon and treat in a professional way such indigent sick persons as have become a charge upon the citizens of the City of Jonesboro, and for his services as City Physician, and President of the Board of Health, the person elected shall receive a salary of Twenty-five Dollars per month.
The City Clerk is hereby authorized to issue at the direction of the Mayor and City Physician City scrip not to exceed the sum of Three Hundred Dollars per year for the purpose of caring for any sick persons or persons, the same to be issued under the director of the Mayor and City Physician whenever such sick person or persons have neither money nor property, and are unable on account of their poverty to care for themselves.
Passed and approved this 6th day of September, 1904