It shall be unlawful for any superintendent of a county home to permit a healthy child of seven (7) years of age, or over, to remain at the county home; but all such children being there shall be reported to the board of supervisors, who shall deal with them in the same way as other poor children.Codes, 1892, § 3161; 1906, § 3584; Hemingway's 1917, § 6201; 1930, § 5714; 1942, § 7365; Laws, 1916, ch. 227.
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