Section 6. Said inspectors shall exercise all the functions, perform all the duties, and have all the powers over any jail and/or workhouse erected under the provisions of this act and over all the inmates and employes therein and thereof as they now exercise, perform, and have over the present jails and prisons, inmates, and employes under their charge. They shall appoint superintendents, matrons, wardens, physicians, keepers, clerks and other employes, and fix their salaries and compensation.
Compiler's Note: Section 9(b) of Act 173 of 1978 provided
that section 6 is repealed insofar as it is inconsistent
with 1 Pa.C.S. § 2301(d) (relating to equality of rights
based on sex)..