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§§ 7665-7672

§ 7665. The penitentiary at Sioux Falls, shall be under the direction and government of five directors who shall be appointed by the governor of the territory, with the advice and consent of the council, said directors to hold their office for the term of two years or until their successors are appointed and qualified; and in case a vacancy shall occur in the position of director, such vacancy shall be filled by the other members of the board, who shall vote by ballot in filling such vacancy, which person so elected shall hold his office until the end of the next legislative assembly thereafter, or until his successor is elected and qualified.

§ 7666. The directors shall make a full and complete report to the governor, to be by him communicated to the legislature at each session, of all their doings, specifying the amount paid to each person, for what service or material the same was paid; and the said directors shall, before entering upon the duties of their office, give a bond to the territory of Dakota in the sum of ten thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of all the duties of their office, to be approved by the territorial treasurer and put on file in his office.

§ 7667. The said directors shall receive five dollars per day for every day they may be actually employed about the erection of said building; provided, that but one of said directors shall be paid for attendance during the progress of the work, except when meetings are held for conference; and traveling expenses not to exceed ten cents per mile for each mile actually and necessarily traveled in discharge of their duties, the said sum to be paid out of the territorial treasury on the warrant of the auditor.

§ 7668. The penitentiary as herein provided shall be the general penitentiary and prison of the territory of Dakota for the punishment and reformation of offenders, in which shall be confined and employed at hard labor and governed in the manner hereinafter directed, all offenders who have been committed and sentenced according to law by any court of the territory of Dakota, [except those in the third and sixth judicial districts), or any district court for an offense against the United States held in the territory of Dakota, to the punishment of solitary imprisonment or at hard labor therein.

[See section 7726.]

§ 7669. For the purpose of all judicial proceedings the prison and precincts thereof shall be deemed to be within and a part of the county of Minnehaha, and the courts of said county shall have jurisdiction of all the crimes and offenses committed within the same.

§ 7670. All process to be served within the precincts of the within the prison, either upon convicts or upon persons or officers employed prison. within the precincts of the prison, except the warden, shall be served and returned by the warden, and all officers and employes of the prison shall be exempt from serving upon juries in any court, and from highway poll tax.

§ 7671. The officers of the prison shall consist of five directors, one warden, one deputy warden, one gate keeper, one turnkey and such guards, overseers and laborers as may be Outh to be taken necessary.

§ 7672. Each officer, overseer or keeper employed in or about the prison shall take an oath before some officer authorized