205.650. May erect poorhouse on acquired land.

May erect poorhouse on acquired land.

205.650. Such county commission may cause to be erected onthe land so purchased or leased a convenient poorhouse or houses,and cause other necessary labor to be done, and repairs andimprovements made, and may appropriate from the revenues of theirrespective counties such sums as will be sufficient to pay thepurchase money in one or more payments to improve the same, andto defray the necessary expenses.

(RSMo 1939 § 9597)

Prior revisions: 1929 § 12957; 1919 § 12206; 1909 § 1340