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for any sums of money due the institution, for any injury done lo
the property or effects of the institution, or for the breach of any
contract made with the said directors in their official capacity,
or on the official bonds of any officer who shall commit a breach
thereof, and to prosecute said suits to judgment and execution.

13. All deeds for the sale of real or leasehold estate held by
the institution, shall be signed by the President of the Board, or
any three of the directors appointed for the purpose, at a meet-
ing of the board.

14. The directors, warden, assistant warden, and all other
officers of the said penitentiary, shall perform and discharge the
duties that may be assigned to them respectively by this article,
or by the rules and regulations of the Board of Directors, not in-
consistent with the provisions of law or the rules and regula-
tions hereinafter established; and if any of them wilfully omit
or refuse to discharge any duty appertaining to his office, after
having accepted the said appointment, he shall be dismissed from
office, and be subject to a fine of not less than thirty nor more than
five hundred dollars, to be recovered at the instance of the said
directors, in the name of the State, for the use of the said peni-
tentiary, before any justice of the peace or court having juris-
diction, as debts are collected.

15. No person having any official connection with the said
institution shall be directly or indirectly concerned or interested
in any contract, purchase or sale of any thing for, by or on
account of the said prison, nor shall they sell to, nor purchase
from the said prison, or its authorities, any article what-
ever; and any person so offending shall be immediately dis-
missed from his employment, and on conviction, be subject to a
fine of five hundred dollars, to be recovered as other fines are;
and the said directors and other officers are hereby required to
make report to the Board of Directors of all such offences
coming to their knowledge, and a failure or neglect shall be con-
sidered as a breach of duty, and punishable under the last pre-
ceding section, but the directors may authorize the payment in
whole or in part of the salaries and dues of the several officers
and others officially connected with the institution, in the goods,
work or manufactures of the penitentiary.

16. No contract for the supply or victualling of the peniten-
tiary, shall be made by the warden, unless he shall have first