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§§ 241-244 transaction of general business, may be held upon the written request of the president or any three members of the board. Three members of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

§ 241. The board of trustees shall have general control and management of their hospital; shall make all by-laws, rules and regulations necessary for the government of the same, not inconsistent with the laws of the territory; they shall appoint a superintendent, who shall be a physician of acknowledged skill and ability, a graduate of a reputable, regular medical college, and of good moral character; one or more assistant physicians, who shall be of like skill and ability, and a graduate of a medical college, as aforesaid, when the superintendent shall deem such appointment necessary; a steward and matron; all of whom shall be styled the resident officers of the hospital, and shall reside therein, and shall be governed by the laws and by-laws established for the same. The salaries of the resident officers of the hospital for the insane shall be per annum, as follows: superintendent, two thousand dollars; steward, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant physicians, one thousand dollars. matron, five hundred dollars. These salaries shall be audited and paid monthly out of the territorial treasury, upon the presentation of the proper voucher therefor, duly verified, which voucher shall be approved by the president of the board of trustees and countersigned by the secretary.

§ 242. One or more of the trustees shall visit his hospital monthly, and the president of the board, with the superintendent shall make monthly examinations of the accounts of the steward and certify their approval on the same page with his monthly balance.

§ 243. The superintendent of the hospital shall before entering upon the duties of his office give a bond to the territory of Dakota in the penal sum of twenty-five hundred dollars, conditioned that he will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of his office according to law and the by-laws of said hospital, to be approved by said board, and take and subscribe an oath faithfully and diligently to discharge the duties required of him by law and the by-laws of the board of trustees, which bond and oath shall be filed with the treasurer of the territory; he shall be the chief executive officer of the hospital, and have entire control of the medical, moral and dietetic treatment of the patients; he shall employ all employes and assistants necessarily connected with the institution, below the grade designated as officers in section 241, and may discharge any employe at will, and suspend any resident officer of the hospital, except steward, being responsible to the board for the proper exercise of that duty in regard to officers.

§ 244. The steward shall keep the accounts, pay those employed in and about the hospital, and have a personal superintendence of the farm, garden and grounds, and perform such other duties as may be assigned him under the by-laws of the hospital, under the direction of the board of trustees; he shall purchase all supplies for the hospital wherever the best grade of articles in suitable quantities can be bought at the lowest price, and, so far as practicable, in large rather than in small quantities; and shall, if in his judgment it can be done to advantage, advertise for proposals for staple supplies, such as meat, flour, sugar, coffee, tea, fuel and other staple articles, and make con-