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2016 Mississippi Code
Title 43 - Public Welfare
Chapter 31 - Poor Persons
§ 43-31-9. Pauper employed in labor
MS Code § 43-31-9 (2016) What's This?
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.
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