As Amended
SEC. 43-31-35. Vessels bringing pauper immigrants, children.
If any person commanding a ship, vessel, steamboat, or other water-craft, shall import into this state, or bring to the shores or within the limits thereof, any infant, lunatic, maimed, aged or infirm person or vagrant, who is likely to become chargeable on the county, on the requisition of the supervisor of the district, or the mayor of any city, town, or village, the captain, master, or commander of such ship, vessel, steamboat, or other water-craft shall enter into bond, with sufficient sureties, payable to the county, conditioned to indemnify such county against all charges that may be incurred in the support and care of such person; and any captain, master, or commander failing or refusing to give the bond required, shall forfeit and pay to the county the sum of two hundred dollars ($200.00) for each infant, lunatic, maimed, aged, or infirm person, or vagrant so brought into the state, to be recovered by action.
SOURCES: Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 14, art. 2 (9); 1857, ch. 23, art. 19; 1871, Sec. 1989; 1880, Sec. 640; 1892, Sec. 3164; 1906, Sec. 3587; Hemingway's 1917, Sec. 6204; 1930, Sec. 5715; 1942, Sec. 7366.