22 Anderson William Clark 



The board consists of three members appointed by the governor 

 and affirmed by a two-thirds vote of the senate, to serve for six 

 years, with a salary for each of $3,000 per annum. 



Power is given to the board to investigate the management and 

 financial conditions ; to manage, control, and govern all state 

 institutions ; also to pass upon all questions relating to prison 

 administration, to pass upon buildings, improvements, and upon 

 all questions relating to the insane and other wards of the state. 



The board is enjoined to prepare annual statements showing 

 cost of operating each institution for the preceding year ; to 

 make biennial reports to the governor and legislature ; to 

 visit all institutions at least once in six months, and to visit 

 all hospitals at least once a month ; to meet all superintendents of 

 institutions quarterly in conference ; to gather statistics ; to pub- 

 lish a bulletin ; to compel the providing of fire protection and fire- 

 escapes ; to compel all emplo3^ees handling money or property 

 of the state to give bonds ; to require inventories of all the state's 

 movable property, and quarterly inventories of all supplies and 

 stores ; to fix annually the salaries of all officers and employees 

 of institutions. 



The board is required to furnish a complete record to be kept 

 at each institution, where all complaints, made by inmates, em- 

 ployees, and others must be entered. 



The board is directed to devise and to apply to all institutions 

 the best system of bookkeeping known, and to prepare the neces- 

 sary books and blanks therefor. Monthly trial balances are 

 recjuired to be made and sent to each institution. There is 

 allowed to the head of institutions a special contingency fund, 

 not exceeding $250, for emergencies. 



The board has full charge of the purchasing of all supplies. 

 Estimates are made by each institution superintendent in tripli- 

 cate once a year for coal, flour, and canned goods, and every 

 three months for supplies of all other articles. These estimates 

 are sent to the office of the board. They are then passed upon 

 by the board, and reduced or added to as to the amount, or 

 changed as to estimated prices. When approved, the estimate is 

 returned to the institution and one copy filed in the office of the 



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