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.
53 P.S. § 13646