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with individuals or concerns for the services of such labor. 

 The board also has full power to examine the accounts of 

 the institutions and may require certain forms of reports 

 and accounts. Thus, whereas California has a dual system 

 with two supervisory boards, the one general, the other fiscal 

 in function, Rhode Island has a dual system v/ith two admin- 

 istrative boards, the one general, the other fiscal in functions. 

 Neither of these systems has any precedent. 



The situation in Minnesota is somewhat more simple. 

 There are two boards: the State Board of Control and the 

 State Board of Visitors for Public Institutions. The Board 

 of Control is quite analogous to the Iowa board; indeed it 

 follows it quite closely, having in its charge the financial 

 management of certain State educational institutions as does 

 the Iowa board. The State Board of Visitors for Public In- 

 stitutions,' despite its name, is not strictly analogous to the 

 Vermont Board of Visitors nor to the Rhode Island board. 

 Its powers are in the main somewhat weaker than those of 

 the Illinois Charities Commission, but its functions are pri- 

 marily the same. The chief duty of the board is to study the 

 whole subject of care of inmates and management of chari- 

 table and correctional institutions, and it has power to ex- 

 amine persons and papers. Its legal powers of investigation, 

 however, are not stated in such sweeping terms as is the 

 case in Illinois or Indiana. 



In Nebraska there are two boards: A Board of Charities 

 and Corrections and a Board of Commissioners of State In- 

 stitutions. Until 1913 the administrative powers over State 

 institutions were vested in the Board of Public Lands and 

 Buildings, which had general charge of State buildings and 

 grounds. The Board of Commissioners was created by a con- 

 stitutional amendment adopted by the people in 1912. Since 

 the creation of this new board, which is a board of adminis- 

 tration for all the charitable, penal, and correctional institu- 

 tions of the State as well as for the insane hospitals, the 

 Nebraska system conforms more closely to the real dual sys- 

 tem found in Illinois and Ohio. The Board of Charities and 

 Corrections is an ex officio board, consisting of the Gov- 

 ernor, Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings, and the 

 State Superintendent of Public Instruction. Its functions are 

 quite similar to those of the Charities Commission of Illinois. 



