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In the management of the asylum, the commissioners have the power to:

  1. Prescribe rules and regulations for the management of the farm and for the treatment of the inmates of the asylum, and modify and change them at pleasure;
  2. Prescribe the manner in which the inmates shall live, sleep, be clothed, and labor, if any of them are able to labor;
  3. Appoint a suitable superintendent of the asylum;
  4. Take from the superintendent a bond, with sufficient surety, in the penalty of five hundred dollars ($500), payable to the state, conditioned for the performance of such superintendent's duties;
  5. Cause the superintendent to subscribe an oath, to be written on the back of the bond; and
  6. Deliver the bond to the clerk of the county legislative body, to be preserved among the files of the clerk's office relating to the asylum.

Code 1858, § 1608 (deriv. Acts 1827 Private, ch. 112, § 6); Shan., § 2692; Code 1932, § 4809; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 7, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 14-805, 14-20-105.


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