ROBERT BOWIE, ESQ. GOVERNOR.

1756

ers confined therein; which the keeper and inspectors
thereof shall report to the governor and council to be
necessary and 'proper; the accounts whereof shall be
submitted and passed in the manner prescribed by the
act entitled, An act respecting crimes and punish-
ments, passed at November session eighteen hundred
and nine; which orders the said treasurer is hereby re-
quired to pay out of any unappropriated money in the
treasury.

1812.

2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the keeper of
the said penitentiary shall receive annually, as a sala-
ry for his services, such sum of money, as with the
five per centum on the sales of the articles which shall
be manufactured in the penitentiary, shall amount to
the sum of one thousand dollars, to be paid out of any
unappropriated money in the treasury by the treasur-
er of the Western Shore, in quarter yearly payments:
and to ascertain the amount of such quarter yearly
payments, it shall be the duty of the inspectors, or of
a quorum of the board, to forward to the treasurer of
the Western Shore every quarter, a statement of the
amount of the commission which shall have been re-
ceived by the said keeper during such quarter.

Salary of the

keeper.

3 AND BE IT ENACTED, That each assistant
keeper of the said penitentary house not exceeding
eight in number, shall receive as a salary for his servic-
es, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars annually,
to be paid out of any unappropriated money in the
treasury.

Salaries of the
assistant keep-
ers.

4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the inspectors
of the said penitentiary, or a majority of them be,
and they are hereby authorised to appoint a discreet
and competent person as book-peeper of the peniten-
tiary; who shall discharge the duties imposed on the
keeper, of the said penitentiary by the forty-fourth sec-
tion of the act entitled, An act concerning crimes and
punishments, passed at November session eighteen
hundred and nine, who shall receive as a salary for his
services the sum of five hundred dollars annually, to
be paid by the treasurer of the Western Shore in
quarter yearly payments, out of any unappropriated
money in the 'treasury.

Inspectors au-
thorised to ap-
point a book-
keeper—his du-
ties and salary.

5. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the inspectors
of the penitentiary or a quorum of them be, and they
pre hereby authorised to draw on the treasurer of the

Western Shore for a sum not exceeding one thousand
five hundred dollars, to be applied under their direc-
tion to the purpose of finishing and completing the
buildings of the said penitentiary 3 and levelling the

Inspectors may
draw on the
treasurer for a
sum not exceed-
ing 1500 dolls.
for certain pur-
poses.