Excerpt from Rules, Regulations and by-Laws: For the Government and Discipline of the Albany County Penitentiary

It shall be the duty of the Superintendent to select and employ one person who shall be styled Deputy Keeper, who shall be his principal assistant, and in the absence of the Superintendent, clothed with, and exercise all his powers, so far as relates to the discipline of the Penitentiary and the safe keeping of the prisoners. He shall also nominate (to be approved of, or appointed by the Board of Inspectors, ) one Overseer, or Assistant Keeper, to each branch of business carried on, and such number of persons for watchmen or guards, as may be necessary for the safe keeping of and for guarding the Penitentiary, to hold their respective places during the pleasure of the Superintendent. Such assistants and guards shall be under the government of the Superintendent, and subject to his orders, who shall oversee and direct them in their several duties, and shall make such rules for their government, and for the government of spectators and others who may be admitted within the prison or yards, or who may be found lurking or loitering without, upon the lands belonging to the establishment, as circumstances may require, provided they are not incompatible with the laws of the state, or the rules and regulations adopted for the general government of the Penitentiary.

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