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CHAP. XLVIII.] cause a copy thereof to be posted up and continued in some conspicuous place in each and every room or cell of said jail.

. 4. The judges aforesaid may from time to time, as they may deem necessary, revise, alter, or amend said rules, rules and such revised rules shall be printed and disposed of by said commissioners and sheriff, in the same manner as is directed by the second and third sections of this act.

. 5. The sheriff, or, in case of his death, removal, or disability, the person by law appointed to supply his place, shall have charge of the county jail of his proper county, and of all persons by law confined therein, and such sheriff or other officer is hereby required to conform, in all respects, to the rules and directions of said district judge above specified, or which may from time to time, by said judge, be made and communicated to him by said commissioners.

. 6. The sheriff or other officers performing the duties of sheriff of each county in this territory, shall, as soon as necessary after the passage of this act, procure, at the expense of the proper county, a suitable book, to be called the jail register, in which the said sheriff, by himself or his jailer: 1. The name of each prisoner, with the date and cause of his or her commitment. 2. The date or manner of his or her discharge. 3. What sickness, if any, has prevailed in the jail during the year, and, if known, what were the causes of such disease. 4. Whether any, or what labor has been performed by the prisoners, and the value thereof. 5. The practice observed during the year, of whitewashing and cleaning the occupied cells or apartments, and the times and seasons of so doing. 6. The habits of the prisoners as to personal cleanliness, diet, and order. 7. The means furnished prisoners of literary, moral, and religious instruction and of labor. 8. All other matters required by said rules, or in the discretion of such sheriff deemed proper; that the said sheriff or other officers performing the duties of sheriff, shall carefully keep and preserve the said jail register, in the office of the jailer of his proper county, and at the expiration of said office, shall deliver the same to his successor in office.

. 7. The sheriff, or other officer performing the duties of sheriff, shall, on or before the first Monday of No-