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§§ 7753-7761 other officer calling upon the aid of the county to assist in serving a process or for quelling an insurrection.

§ 7753. The warden and all prison officers shall uniformly treat prisoners with kindness, and the warden shall require of the officers that in the execution of their respective duties they shall in all cases refrain from boisterous and unbecoming language in giving their orders and commands. There shall be no corporal or other painful and unusual punishment inflicted upon convicts for violation of prison rules.

§ 7754. The money and effects, except the clothes, in possession of each convict when committed to the prison shall be preserved by the warden and restored to the convict when discharged.

§ 7755. Every convict when discharged shall be provided with a decent suit of clothes and a sum of money, not to exceed five dollars, and transportation to the place where the convict received sentence, and may also be allowed employment in the prison under the rules established for the government of convicts, for such period of time, and at such rate of compensation, as the warden shall deem proper and equitable.

§ 7756. The warden shall in case of death of any convict cause the body to be decently buried or deliver it to the relatives or friends of such convict, if demanded by them within twenty-four hours.

§ 7757. If the warden shall at any time deem it for the interest of the territory, he may employ the convicts outside the prison yard in quarrying or getting stone from and cultivating the prison farm, or in doing any work necessary to be done in the prosecution of the regular business of the institution; and in all such cases the warden shall detail such force from the prison police as he shall deem necessary to watch and guard them; and in case any convict employed outside the prison yard shall escape he shall be deemed as having escaped from the prison proper; provided, however, that the warden shall be held responsible for the escape of any prisoners through the carelessness or neglect of himself or any of his subordinates.

§ 7758. The warden shall keep a true record of the conduct of each convict, specifying each infraction of the rules of discipline. At the end of each month the said warden shall give a certificate of good conduct to each convict who shall require it, against whom is recorded no infraction of the rules of discipline.

§ 7759. Whenever any convict by continued good behavior, diligence in labor or study, or otherwise, shall surpass the gen. eral average of convicts, he may be compensated therefor, at the discretion of the governor, upon the recommendation in writing of the directors, either by diminishing the period of his confinement or by payment of money, or both.

§ 7760. When any convict sentenced to periodical terms of solitary confinement shall, after suffering one term of solitary confinement, conduct himself in a peaceful, obedient and industrious manner, the board of directors may exempt him from further solitary confinement during good behavior.

§ 7761. The warden may adopt such measures as he may deem proper, with the approval of the directors, to aid in detecting and capturing escaped convicts.