If any person commanding a ship, vessel, steamboat, or other watercraft imports into this state, or brings to the shores or within the limits thereof, any infant, person with mental illness, maimed, aged or infirm person or vagrant who is likely to become chargeable on the county, on the requisition of the supervisor of the district or the mayor of any municipality, the captain, master, or commander of the ship, vessel, steamboat, or other watercraft shall enter into bond with sufficient sureties, payable to the county, conditioned to indemnify the county against all charges that may be incurred in the support and care of that person. Any captain, master, or commander failing or refusing to give the bond required shall forfeit and pay to the county the sum of Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) for each infant, person with mental illness, maimed, aged, or infirm person or vagrant so brought into the state, to be recovered by action.
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