The board of supervisors, and, in case of emergency, the supervisor of the district, may provide for the temporary relief of a pauper until he can be removed to the county home.Codes, 1892, § 3153; 1906, § 3576; Hemingway's 1917, § 6193; 1930, § 5699; 1942, § 7350; Laws, 1912, ch. 234.
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