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Sioux Falls Penitentiary. to administer oaths, to discharge the duties respectively required by law and the regulations of the prison, faithfully and to the best of his ability.

§ 7673. The warden shall be appointed by the directors to hold his office for two years unless sooner removed by the directors, and said directors are hereby authorized to remove such warden at their discretion.

§ 7674. All other officers and employes shall be appointed by the warden, to be approved by the directors, and shall hold their office during the pleasure of the warden.

§ 7675. The warden shall receive a salary to be fixed by the directors, not to exceed twenty hundred dollars per annum, and all other officers and employes such amounts as the directors may from time to time determine and fix upon.

§ 7676. The directors, or some one them, shall visit the prison at least once in each month, and oftener, if they think necessary, for the purpose of inspecting the books and all the concerns of the prison, and ascertaining whether the officers are competent and faithful, and the convicts properly governed and employed, with power to direct any alteration in the business there carried on which such directors may consider necessary.

§ 7677. All books and documents relating to the concerns of the prison shall at all times be open to the examination of the directors and the public.

§ 7678. The directors shall, on or before the 15th day of December of each year, make a detailed report to the governor for the year ending on the last day of the preceding month, stating therein the names of the officers of the prison, with their several salaries, the number of convicts, the amount of manufacture and the cost of each addition to and change in the prison building, together with a full statement of all the concerns of the prison.

§ 7679. The warden shall, under the direction of the directors, have the charge and custody of the prison, with all lands, buildings, furniture, tools, implements, stock and provisions, and every other species of property pertaining thereto or within the precincts thereof, and shall superintend the police of the prison, and discipline of the convicts. He shall be treasurer of the prison, and he shall render to the directors, on the first day of each month, a full and accurate statement of all moneys received by him, and all sums of money expended by him during the preceding month, showing on what account received and expended, and shall accompany said report with proper vouchers for all such expenditures, which report shall be verified by the oath of the warden, and shall receive and pay out all moneys granted by the legislature for the support of the prison, and such as may accrue from the business of manufacturing under contract or otherwise, convict labor, or rentage or sale of any