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2013 Mississippi Code
Title 43 - PUBLIC WELFARE
Chapter 31 - POOR PERSONS
- § 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
- § 43-31-12 - Transferred
- § 43-31-13 - Claims allowed
- § 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
- § 43-31-29 - Relief of those not entitled to a settlement; burial of strangers; indigent burial policy; board adjudication of person as pauper; board authorized to contribute funds or pay full cost of burial
- § 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
- § 43-31-35 - Bond required of commanders of vessels bringing into state certain persons who may require support and care
- § 43-31-37 - Master of vessel landing alien passengers
- § 43-31-39 - Distribution of federal surplus food commodities to needy
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