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§§ 8524-8527 management thereof, the punishment and employment of the inmates; and they may, from time to time, require reports from the officers in regard to any and all of said matters. Each board of trustees shall also inquire into any improper conduct alleged to have been committed by any officer or employee and for that purpose the president of the board, by direction of the board to be entered in the records of its proceedings, is hereby empowered to issue subpanas to compel the attendance of witnesses and the production of papers, books and writings before said board, in the same manner and with like effect as any officer or court of this state. And the said trustees may examine witnesses and persons appearing before said board), on oath, to be administered by the president of the board, or in his absence, by any other member thereof.

§ 8624. General reports. Contents. Special reports. Each of such boards shall make full and complete reports to the governor, to be by him communicated to the legislative assembly at each regular session, of all its doings, and the matters pertaining to the institution under its charge, specifying the number of officers and persons employed at the same and in what capacity and the amount paid to each, and shall also give in detail a statement of the entire business of such institution for the preceding two years including receipts from all sources and all expenditures and for what services or material the same were made, and also all the matters pertaining to the general business, improvement and discipline of such institution: also a full statement of the number of persons committed to and received into the game, and from what county received and for what crimes or cause; the number discharged therefrom and by what authority: the number that have died or escaped and the general health of the inmates. And the governor may, at any time, in writing to be left with the secretary of the board or any member thereof, call upon and require either of such boards to make to him a general report in regard to the transactions of the institution under its charge, or a special report in regard to any part thereof, and it shall be the duty of said board to make said report and deliver the same to the governor, within fifteen days from the next regular monthly meeting after said call.

§ 8525. Records open to inspection. All books, records and documents relating to the concerns and business of either of such institutions shall, at all times, be open to the examination of the board of trustees or any member thereof or any citizen of this state.

§ 8526. Officers must not be interested in contract Neither of said boards of trustees nor any member thereof, nor any officer, guard, agent, overseer or employee at such institution shall be pecuniarily interested or concerned directly or indirectly in any contract, either verbal or written, that may be entered into by any person or persons on behalf of the state for any purpose whatever connected with the business of such institution.

§ 8527. Inventory of personal property. Contents. Each board of trustees and the warden, or superintendent shall annually between the first and fifteenth days of November, and at each change of warden or superintendent, make out in triplicate an inventory in detail of all the personal property at or pertaining to the institution under their charge. and belonging to the state, or in which the state has any interest: one copy of which shall be retained in the office of the warden, or superintendent, and one copy delivered to the governor and

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