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Commissioners of State Institutions; Georgia, Prison Com- 

 mission ; Kansas, State Board of Corrections (for the penal in- 

 stitutions) ; Montana, Board of Prison Commissioners, and 

 Board of Commissioners for the Insane; Wyoming, State 

 Board of Charities and Reform. 



The Indiana Type. There are fifteen States which are es- 

 sentially of this, the supervisory type. They are Alabama, 

 Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, 

 Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, North Caro- 

 lina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia. Of these, 

 ten are strictly after the Indiana type, that is, they have a 

 single board of supervision over all charitable institutions. 

 These are Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland, Michi- 

 gan, Missouri, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, 

 and Virginia. A subcommittee of the Pennsylvania board, 

 however, has considerable executive power over institutions 

 for the insane.2^ Delaware has a commission of two memxbers, 

 styled Board of Supervisors of State and County Institutions 

 in New Castle county. Altho operating in only one of the 

 three counties of the State, this is really a State board, cre- 

 ated by the State, and presumably confined to the county 

 where the State's charity problem is most felt. 



Massachusetts has three distinct supervisory boards, one 

 over each of the main divisions of the charity field. These 

 boards are styled State Board of Charities, Commission on 

 Mental Diseases, and Board of Prison Commissioners. The 

 first two boards are supervisory, and in their respective fields 

 quite analogous to the Indiana board, altho the Board of 

 Charities has executive functions in connection with the treat- 

 ment of adult paupers and in placing out of minors. The 

 Prison Commissioners have somewhat more administrative 

 functions. 



New Jersey has a single Commissioner of Charities and 

 Corrections. In the main his functions are similar to those 

 of the Indiana board. He has, however, executive or admin- 

 istrative functions in connection with plans and specifications 

 for State buildings, and his fiscal inspection is emphasized, 

 altho his power is purely that of inspection. 



While Vermont is essentially of the Indiana type, it has 



21 See Act of Pennsylvania, May 8, 1883; Purdon's Digest, Vol. ii, p. 2362, §§ 23, 24. 



