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Penitentiary, and State Reformatory. The board consists of three com- 

 missioners who serve six years at a salary of $1,200. Not more than one 

 commissioner may reside in the same congressional district, and not more 

 than two at the same time shall be members of the same political party. 

 This board is given the duties and powers of the former State Board of 

 Lunacy Commissioners and the Board of Penitentiary Commissioners, 

 which, tho called State boards, had been virtually boards of trustees for 

 the separate institutions. — Annotated Statutes, 1912, Ch. 27, §§ 603, 615; 

 Session Laws, 1915, Ch. 52, p. 153. 



Connecticut. Connecticut is of the Indiana type. A board of five 

 persons, two of whom are women, styled State Board of Charities, inspects 

 all almshouses, homes for neglected or dependent children, asylums, hos- 

 pitals, and all institutions for the care or support of the dependent or 

 criminal classes, and inspects all institutions in which persons are de- 

 tained by compulsion to ascertain whether commitment and treatment 

 have been proper, and may correct any abuses found to exist in such 

 manner as not to conflict with any personal, corporate, or statutory rights. 

 Members serve for four years without compensation. The management of 

 each institution is vested in separate boards of trustees. — General Stat- 

 utes, 1902, Ch. 173, p. 730. 



Delaware. Delaware is of the Indiana type. A commission of two, 

 one a woman, styled Board of Supervisors of State and County Institu- 

 tions in Newcastle County, visits State, county, and municipal institutions 

 in that county, where persons are restrained of their liberty, and investi- 

 gates treatment of inmates. The two commissioners receive a salary of 

 $25 per annum with no further allowance for traveling expenses. An 

 amending act of 1915 revised the system, placing greater emphasis on 

 financial matters. 



A commission of seven, styled Delaware Commission for the Blind, 

 has supervision and control of the education, training, and welfare of the 

 blind residing in the State.— Laws, 1909, Ch. 72, p. 138; Ch. 73, p. 140; 

 Laws, 1915, Ch. 69, p. 168. 



Florida. Florida is of the Iowa type, but its board is ex officio. A 

 board of. commissioners of State institutions, consisting of the Governor 

 and Cabinet, has supervision and administration of the Florida Hospital 

 for Insane and State prison, and secures supplies for the latter thru bids 

 and contracts; it also contracts for State printing and supervises altera- 

 tions and repairs on the State capitol. — Digest, 1902, p. 12; Constitution, 

 Art. IV, § 17. 



Georgia. Georgia is another State of the Iowa type which has only a 

 prison commission. This board consists of three citizens appointed by the 

 governor, and has complete control of State convicts and the Georgia 

 State Reformatory, and supervises the other convict camps. — Code, 1911, 

 Vol. ii, §§1185-1241. 



Idaho. Idaho belongs to the trustee type and has no State board of 

 control or supervision. The State board of examiners examines the books 

 of the institutions. Otherwise all responsibility for the State institutions 

 rests with separate boards of trustees. The Board of State Prison Com- 



