The municipal authorities of every city, town, and village shall bury all strangers found dead within their limits, or found floating in any waters at a point adjoining their limits, and all expenses or charges shall be chargeable to the county; and an accurate account thereof shall be reported to the board of supervisors, who shall allow the same, and order it to be paid out of the county treasury; but the boards of supervisors may fix maximum charges for such burials.Codes, 1857, ch. 23, art. 15; 1871, § 1988; 1880, § 636; 1892, § 3146; 1906, § 3569; Hemingway's 1917, § 6186; 1930, § 5709; 1942, § 7360.
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