All instruments of every kind, or attested copies thereof duly certified, by which any person is committed to or liberated from the county jail shall be regularly endorsed and filed and kept in a suitable box in the jail by the sheriff, or by his deputy acting as jailer, and such box, together with its contents, shall be delivered to his successor in office.
Source: L. 77: Entire title R&RE, p. 938, § 10, effective August 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 27-26-117 as it existed prior to 1977.