It shall be unlawful for any superintendent of a county home to permit a healthy child of seven (7) years of age, or over, to remain at the county home; but all such children being there shall be reported to the board of supervisors, who shall deal with them in the same way as other poor children.
Structure Mississippi Code
§ 43-31-1. Jurisdiction; county homes
§ 43-31-3. Purchase land and erect buildings
§ 43-31-5. May sell or exchange the property
§ 43-31-7. Rules for government of county home
§ 43-31-9. Pauper employed in labor
§ 43-31-11. Relief until removal
§ 43-31-15. Tax for support of poor
§ 43-31-17. Obligations not incurred except by authority of the board
§ 43-31-19. Settlement of paupers
§ 43-31-21. Duty of each supervisor
§ 43-31-23. Support of pauper for his labor
§ 43-31-25. Certain relatives bound to support pauper; liability of deceased pauper's estate
§ 43-31-27. Strolling paupers removed and, if sick, relieved
§ 43-31-31. Certain dead to be buried by corporate authorities
§ 43-31-33. Children of seven years of age or older not allowed at the county home
§ 43-31-37. Master of vessel landing alien passengers
§ 43-31-39. Distribution of federal surplus food commodities to needy