44:1-3 - Establishment by board of freeholders - New Jersey Statutes

44:1-3.  Establishment by board of freeholders    The board of chosen freeholders of a county may, by resolution, establish a  county almshouse to be known as a welfare-house, or change the name, control  and management of an existing county almshouse for the care and maintenance of  the permanent poor, and the permanent poor, other than in municipalities  excepted therefrom as provided in this chapter, shall be provided for therein  by the county, and almshouses maintained and supported in municipalities in the  county shall, as otherwise provided in this chapter, thereafter be abolished  and the permanent poor shall thereafter be maintained in the county institution  rather than in municipal almshouses.