MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972
As Amended

SEC. 43-31-3. Purchase land and erect buildings.

The board of supervisors may purchase, in the name of the county, not more than one hundred and sixty (160) acres of land for a county home and farm; and it may erect thereon suitable buildings and make all necessary contracts for these purposes.

SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 14, art. 5 (2); 1857, ch. 23, art. 2; 1871, Sec. 1976; 1880, Sec. 625; 1892, Sec. 3155; 1906, Sec. 3578; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 6195; 1930, Sec. 5695; 1942, Sec. 7346; Laws, 1912, ch. 234.


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