The baggage and person of the inmate shall also be carefully searched and every instrument taken from the inmate by which the inmate may effect an escape.Code 1858, § 5500 (deriv. Acts 1829, ch. 38, § 25); Shan., § 7518; Code 1932, § 12115; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-208.
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