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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