44:1-30. Persons receivable in welfare-house
The superintendent of welfare under the general rules and regulations shall receive in the welfare-house such poor persons as by law are properly receivable therein, or as otherwise by law may be provided, and all such persons as would otherwise be receivable in a county or municipal almshouse, and who have settlements therein, except the poor of municipalities which do not participate in the support and maintenance of the welfare-house.