The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-06-14
CHAPTER CLyIu.

A Supplement to an act entitled +" An act for the
government and regulation of the state prison."
approved April twenty-five eighteen hundred
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That sec
ton one of the act TO which this is a Supplement-
be and the same Is hereby amended 80 as to read
as follows:
l. Be it enacted by the Senate and General
assembly Of the state Of New Jersey. That there
shall be appointed by the legislature in joint
meeting, at the present session and every FIVE
years thereafter, a competent and suitable person
70 De supervisor OF the state prison OF this state,
state prison supervisor, and who shall hold office
Tor i've years and until his successor is chosen
and appointed as aforesaid and qualified; such
supervisor shall receive annual salary of three
thousand dollars, payable monthly upon the
warrant Of the comptroller; he shall perform all
the duties which are now or may hereafter be i'm
posed by law upon the supervisor of the state
prison; he shall, before entering upon the duties
OF his Office take and subscribe, before justice Of
the supreme court Of this state, an oath that he
will well and truly execute the office of state
prison supervisor and will well and faithfully
discharge all the duties imposed upon him by law
as such supervisor, aad he shall give bond to the
state OF New Jersey, with not less than two sufi-
Gent suretes, to be approved by the board Of in
speetors OF the said prison. or majority thereof,
and filed in the office of the secretary of state in
the sum Of twenty-five thousand dollars, with
condition that he will well and faithfully dis
charge all the duties imposed upon him by the
laws of this state, and will well and faithfully
use, account for and pay over to the treasurer of
the state, as may be required of him by law, all
the moneys of the state which may be received
by him as state prison supervisor Of the state of
New Jersey.
q And be it enacted, That section three of the
act to which thisis supplement be and the same
is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
g. And be it enacted, That the principal
keeper Of said prison shall reside at said prison
during the term of his office, and shall receive a
salary of thee thousand five hundred dollars per
arnufn, and at that rate for shorter period to
be paid monthly by the treasurer of this state
upon the warrant of the comptroller and upon
orders drawn on him by any two of the inspec-
tors, together with his necessary fuel and light
and said keeper shall have power to appoint, sub
ject to the approval of the board of inspectors,
such assistant and deputies as may be necessary
and proper to enable him to execute the duties
of his Office which said deputies and assistants
shall have such compensation and allowances as
the said board of inspectors shall deem Just and
proper; which shall be paid by the treasurer
monthly npon the warrant OF the comptroller
and upon orders drawn by any two of said inspec-
tors: but no assistant or deputy shall perform
any duty or receive any compensation until his
appointment shall haveabeen approved by the in
spectors, or majority of them; and the said
keeper with the consent of the board of inspect
ors or majority of them, may dismiss any or all
of the said deputies and assistants, and shall dis
miss any of them when required so to do by the
, unanimous action of the said board and before
said keeper shall exercise any part of his office,
he shall give bond to this state with two sufficient
sureties, to be approved by the treasurer of the
state in the sum. of five thousand dollars with
the condition that he and his deputies shall well
ana 1altn1u1ly perform the duties imposed on
them by law; and said keeper, with his sureties,
shall acknowledge the execution Of said bond, or
cause the same to be proved before the governor
OF one of the justices of the supreme court of this
state and shall then deliver the same to the sec
Rotary of state, who shall cause the to be
corded and filed in his Office; and copies of said
record legally exemplifed by said secretary, shall
be legal evidence in all courts of this state in any
suit against SAID keeper and his sureties or any
of them.
g. And be it enacted That all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent with this act be and the same
Immediately.
Passed April 2, 1885. N