Biennial Report of the State Board of Charities and Corrections, Volume 6, Parts 1901-1902

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Page 101 - ... to be sued for and recovered by and to the use of such county, by action of debt, before any justice of the peace in the proper county.
Page 5 - ... office for two years, two for four years and two for six years.
Page 99 - That every poor person who shall be unable to earn a livelihood in consequence of any bodily infirmity, idiocy, lunacy, or other unavoidable cause, shall be supported by the father, grandfather, mother, grandmother, children, grandchildren, brothers or sisters of such poor person, if they, or either of them, be of sufficient ability : Provided, that when any persons become paupers from intemperance, or other bad conduct, they shall not be entitled to support from any relation, except parent or child.
Page 100 - ... shall not be of sufficient ability, or shall fail, or refuse, to maintain such pauper, then the said pauper, shall receive such relief as his or her case may require, out of the county treasury...
Page 100 - ... shall make such allowance for board, nursing, medical aid or burial expenses, as they shall deem just and equitable, and order the same to be paid out of the county treasury.
Page 99 - ... reside in the same county or not, shall forfeit and pay to the county commissioners, for the use of the poor of their county, the sum of ten dollars for each and every month for which they or either of them shall fail or refuse, to be recovered in the name of the county commissioners...
Page 101 - ... one per cent, on the taxable property in the county, and to appropriate the same to the purchase of land, not exceeding the aforesaid six hundred and forty acres ; and to erect and furnish buildings suitable for a poor-house, and to put into operation and to defray the actual expenses of said poor-house, should the labor of the inmates be inadequate thereto.
Page 5 - ... institutions which derive their support wholly or in part from state, county or municipal appropriations, and the officers of the various institutions named herein shall without unnecessary delay, when so requested, in writing, furnish to the board such information, statistical or otherwise, as may be demanded.
Page 39 - ... for each mile necessarily traveled in going to and returning from the seat of government...
Page 6 - No member of the board of said commissioners shall be, directly or indirectly, interested in any contract for building, repairing or furnishing any of the institutions which by this act they are authorized to...

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