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§§ 7740-1745 articles shall be received. Such notice shall be published at least three successive weeks.

§ 7740. All such proposals shall be in writing and sealed up, and upon the day appointed in the notice in the foregoing section they shall be opened by the warden, who shall cause all offers made in such proposals to be entered in a book and compared. The person offering the best terms, together with satisfactory security for the performance which shall be required by the warden in said notice, shall be entitled to the contract, unless it shall appear to the warden that no one of the offers is as low as the fair market price. In that case no offer shall be accepted, but the warden may, if he thinks necessary, advertise again and proceed as before provided for.

§ 7741. All persons contracting under the provisions of the preceding sections shall give bonds to the territory in double the value of the supplies to be furnished, with satisfactory security for the faithful performance of their contract. Ail bills contracted by the warden for purchases on account of the prison shall be approved by a majority of the directors before payment.

§ 7742. The warden shall take bills of quantity and price artides received. of the supplies furnished in all cases where the same is practicable, at the time of their delivery, and the warden, or such other officer as the warden shall direct, shall compare the bill with the articles delivered, and if the same are found correct he shall make a corresponding entry on the account hooks of the prison and file the bill as a voucher of the fact of such delivery. If any bill so rendered shall be discovered to be incorrect on comparing it with the articles delivered, the warden shall immediately give notice to the person furnishing such supplies.

§ 7743. It is made the duty of the warden, and he is hereby required, to make out and present to the directors of the penitentiary a detailed estimate of the amount of money necessary to meet the current expenses of the penitentiary for the next ensuing month, and upon presentation of the said estimate to the territorial auditor, after being duly approved and certified by the president of the board of directors of said penitentiary, the said territorial auditor shall draw a warrant upon the territorial treasurer for the amount of said estimate or estimates so certified and approved in favor of the said warden of the said penitentiary. All moneys shall be expended, and all purchases shall be made, by or under the direction of the board of directors, and the salary of all employes shall be fixed by them except as otherwise provided in this act.

§ 7744. The sheriff of each county shall convey to the penitentiary aforesaid, all persons convicted in his county and sentenced to be confined in said prison, as soon as may be after such conviction and sentence shall have been had; and after delivering such convict or convicts to the warden, together with a certified copy of the judgment and sentence of the court ordering such imprisonment, the warden shall deliver to such sheriff a receipt in which he shall acknowledge having received the prisoner (naming him) which said receipt the sheriff shall file in the office of the clerk of the court where such conviction and sentence was had.

§ 7745. All convicts the prison shall the charge and custody of the warden, who shall govern and employ them in the manner prescribed by law, the rules and regulations of the