As Amended
SEC. 43-31-29. Relief of those not entitled to a settlement; burial of strangers.
The boards of supervisors shall also relieve, support or employ paupers found or being in the county, though not entitled to a settlement therein, and, in case of their decease, shall decently bury them; and all expenses shall be chargeable to and recoverable from the county in which such pauper had a settlement; and the board shall decently bury all strangers dying in the county.
SOURCES: Codes, 1857, ch. 23, art. 10; 1871, Sec. 1983; 1880, Sec. 632; 1892, Sec. 3145; 1906, Sec. 3568; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 6184; 1930, Sec. 5708; 1942, Sec. 7359.