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recently created a purchasing agent for State institutions, 



and the peculiar situation resulting therefrom is discussed 



under the dual system and under the subject of purchasing 

 supplies.^2 



The common name for State supervisory boards is State 

 Board of Charities or State Board of Charities and Correc- 

 tions. The latter name is the older one, but the former is 

 now regarded as sufficiently inclusive. Eight of the fifteen 

 States bear one or the other of these names. These States 

 are Connecticut, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, 

 South Carolina, and Virginia. The names of the boards in 

 the other States excepting those already mentioned follow: 

 Maryland, Board of State Aid and Charities ; North Carolina, 

 Board of Public Charities ; Pennsylvania, State Board of 

 Public Charities. 



The Dual Type.^^ There are now thirteen States which 

 may possibly be classed under the dual system. These are 

 California, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, New 

 Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South 

 Dakota, Tennessee, and Vermont. Of these only Illinois and 

 Ohio are at all similar in the organization and functions given 

 the boards, tho the fiscal side of the State systems of New 

 Hampshire and Vermont are very similar. The Ohio system 

 was quite obviously modeled after the Illinois plan, altho one 

 essential change was made, the Fiscal Supervisor in Ohio not 

 being a member of the board but merely an employee. In 

 California and indeed in all the other States the conditions 

 found are peculiar to each State. 



California has four boards: a Board of Control, a State 

 Board of Charities, a Commission in Lunacy, and a Prison 

 Commission, the latter being hardly more than a board of 

 trustees for the State prison. The Board of Charities and 



'2 See pp. 23 and 40. 



This analysis of State systems is based on the following statutes — California : Stat- 

 utes, 1911, Oh. 349, pp. 590, 1334; 1909, p. 56, Colorado: Annotated Statutes, 1912, Oh. 

 27, §§603, 615; Session Laws, 1915, Ch. 152, p. 153. New York: Consolidated Laws, 1909, 

 pp. 5377, 5386; 1911, p. 733; 1909, pp. 2441, 4301, 4357. Rhode Island: Acts, 1912, p. 187; 

 General Laws, 1909, pp. 1332, 1340. Nebraska: Laws, 1913, p. 535; General Laws, 1909, 

 Vol. ii, § 10318. Minnesota: General Statutes, 1913, §§ 4001, 4139. New Hampshire: Laws, 

 1913, p. 650 ; Public Statutes, 1901, p. 278. Oklahoma : Compiled Laws, 1909, Ch. 92, pp. 

 1468, 1469, §§ 7384-7395; Constitution, Art. VI, §§ 27-30. South Dakota: Revised Code, 

 1903, p. 34; Civil Code, §§ 171, 307. Tennessee: Code, 1896, § 2672, p. 638; Public Acts. 

 1915, Ch. 20, p. 44. Vermont: Laws, 1912, pp. 170, 323; Public Statutes, 1906, §6017; 

 Laws, 1910, p. 126. 



