onsideration.
After much labor, the following, as subsequently amended, was presented
to the legislature at its session in '71.

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND
SEVENTY-ONE.

An act in relation to the Penal Institutions.

_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives in General Court convened:_

SECTION 1. There shall be a Board of directors of
Prisons to consist of five persons appointed by the
Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the
Senate, who shall hold office for five years, except
that the five first appointed shall hold their office
for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 years respectively, the commission
of each designating his term of office. Thereafter one
Director shall be appointed annually in the month of
June, to hold his office five years. Such Board shall
have charge and superintendence of the State Prison,
and shall have such power, and perform such duties in
respect to County Jails, the Reform School and other
penal and reformatory institutions within the State, as
the Legislature may by law impose upon it. The Board
may, from time to time, elect from its own members or
otherwise, a Secretary, who shall perform such duties
as the Board may prescribe, and shall receive such
salary as the Legislature may determine. The other
members of the Board shall receive no compensation,
other than reasonable and other traveling expenses,
while engaged in the performance of official duty. And
the limit of such expenses shall be in amount ---- to
each individual, which shall not be changed except at
intervals of five years.

SECTION 2. Such Board shall have power,

I. To appoint the Warden, Deputy Warden, Chaplain,
Physician and Surgeon of the State Prison, and shall
have power to remove either of such officers, for cause
only, after opportunity to be heard in his own defense
upon written charges. All other officers and guards of
the prison shall be appointed by the Warden thereof,
and shall be removable at his pleasure.

II. To define the powers, duties and compensation of
such officers, except the compensation of the Warden.

III. To establish by-laws for the government of the
prison.

IV. To provide for the purchase of all article