The members of the board of supervisors are conservators of the peace within their respective counties, and shall possess all the powers as such which belong to, or are conferred on, justices of the peace.
Miss. Code Ann. § 19-3-39
Supervisors are conservators of the peace
Codes, 1857, ch. 59, art 12; 1871, § 1359; 1880, § 2141; 1892, § 286; 1906, § 304; Hemingway’s 1917, § 3677; 1930, § 210; 1942, § 2885.
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