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