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156. officer of the same; and the jailor of any such adjoining county shall receive and keep such prisoner in the same manner as if he had been ordered, sentenced, or delivered to him by any officer or court of his own county. The county from which such prisoner was taken, shall pay all the expenses of keeping and maintaining him in said jail.

Sec. 3. All charges and expenses for safe keeping and maintaining convicts who have been sentenced to confinement in the territorial prison, shall be paid out of the treasury of the territory yearly; the accounts of the keeper being first allowed by the board of county commissioners of the county where the convict shall be confined ; and the expenses of safe keeping and maintaining persons charged with offenses, and duly committed for trial, and of those who are sentenced to confinement in the county jail, or who may be committed for the non-payment of any fine, shall be paid out of the treasury of the county; when the account of the keeper being in like manner allowed by the board of county commissioners: Provided, That the territory, nor any county, shall ever pay more than two and a half dollars a week for the support of any person as aforesaid.

Sec. 4. The county commissioners in the several counties shall be inspectors of the prisons in their respective counties, and shall visit them at least once in each year, and shall examine fully into the condition of such prison, as to health, cleanliness and discipline; and the keeper thereof shall lay before them a calendar setting forth the name, age and cause of committal of each prisoner; and if it shall appear to the said inspectors that any of the provisions of law have been violated or neglected, they shall forth with give notice to the district attorney of the county.

Sec. 5. No sheriff, jailor, or keeper of any prison, shall, under any pretense, give, sell or deliver to any person committed to any prison, for any cause whatever, any spirituous liquor, or any mixed liquor, part of which is spirituous, or any wine, cider, or strong beer, unless a physician shall certify in writing, that the health of such prisoner requires it, in which case he may be allowed the quantity prescribed, and no more. And no sheriff, jailor, or keeper, as aforesaid, shall put up, or keep in the same room, male and female prisoners together.