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ernor, with or without the advice and consent of the senate. 

 All of the boards are allowed to appoint a secretary, usually 

 at a fixed salary, together with such clerical assistants and 

 special agents as may be necessary. Thus Indiana has a staff 

 of thirteen besides the secretary, while Iowa has fifteen. The 

 members of all boards are allowed their traveling expenses. 



To point out the fundamental characteristics of each sys- 

 tem three States hai^e been taken as examples. In each of 

 these the particular system is working with marked success, 

 and the law creating each system is in the main quite typical. 

 What is typical, however, is not the extent of the authority 

 of the boards: that is, the number and kind of institutions 

 controlled or supervised, but the nature of the function exer- 

 cised and the relation of the central boards to State, local, and 

 private institutions. 



The Supervisory Type — Indiana/^ Indiana has eighteen 

 State institutions, each of which is administered in all details 

 by a separate board of trustees. These boards have all pow- 

 ers of appointment, and supervise both the purchase of sup- 

 plies, by contract or otherwise, and methods of caring for in- 

 mates. There is absolutely no connection between the manage- 

 ments of the various institutions. State supervision of these 

 institutions is vested in a Board of State Charities consisting 

 of six members appointed by the governor, who is ex officio 

 member and president of the board. Regular meetings are 

 held quarterly or more frequently if deemed necessary. The 

 members receive no compensation. 



The board ''shall investigate the whole system of public 

 charities -and correctional institutions of the State, examine 

 into the condition and management thereof, especially of pris- 

 ons, jails, infirmaries, public hospitals, and asylums" ; may 

 prescribe such forms of reports and registration as it may 

 deem essential to secure accuracy, uniformity, and complete- 

 ness of statistics. All plans for new jails and infirmaries, 

 before adoption of the same by the county authorities, must 

 be submitted to the board for suggestion and criticism. At 

 its discretion, the board may at any time make an investi- 

 gation, by the whole board or by a committee of its members, 

 of the management of any penal, reformatory, or charitable 



13 Burns' Annotated Statutes. 1914, §§ 3665-3678; 9812a, b. 



