The board of supervisors may cause the superintendent of the county home to employ in labor such paupers as may be able to work, in such way as it may deem proper without endangering their health or without oppressing them; and a fair amount of the profits resulting from such labor shall be kept and returned to the board of supervisors.
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