The commissioner is authorized to make contracts for the sale of coal and coke of the state mines and to dispose of all articles manufactured by the inmates for the state, to the best interests of the state, and pay the proceeds into the state treasury.Acts 1895 (Ex. Sess.), ch. 7, § 18; impl. am. Acts 1915, ch. 20, § 9; Shan., § 7474; impl. am. Acts 1919, ch. 39, §§ 1, 2; impl. am. Acts 1923, ch. 7, § 42; mod. Code 1932, § 12069; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 41-405.
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