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Iowa. A board of three persons, styled Board of Control of State 

 Institutions, has full power to manage and control the soldiers' home. 

 State hospitals for insane, schools for blind, deaf, feeble-minded, and 

 industrial schools, soldiers' orphans' home, and State penitentiaries. The 

 board has power of inspecting private and county institutions for the 

 insane, and State educational institutions, and its fiscal supervision is 

 emphasized. Members of the board serve for six years and receive an 

 annual salary of $3,000. Not more than two shall be from the same 

 political party. — Supplement to Code, 1907, §§ 2727-al. 



Kansas. Kansas is of the Iowa type. A board of three persons^ 

 styled Board of Control of State Charitable Institutions, has full control 

 of the industrial schools for girls and boys. State hospitals, schools 

 for blind, deaf, and feeble-minded, and soldiers' orphans' home. The mem- 

 bers of the board are trustees for these institutions, and have full power 

 of inspection, establish a uniform system of accounting, and purchase sup- 

 plies. The board also inspects and licenses private asylums, and all 

 private institutions of the State receiving State aid are subject to its 

 visitation and supervision. Members serve for four years and receive a 

 salary of $2,500 per annum. — General Statutes, 1909, § 7894; Laws, 1911, 

 Ch. 46, p. 77. 



The board of three persons, styled a State Board of Corrections, are by 

 virtue of the office directors of the State penitentiary, managers of the 

 State industrial reformatory, managers and trustees of State reformatory 

 schools for boys and for girls, and have full power over each institution. 

 They receive $1,200 and expenses.— Laws, 1913, Ch. 289, p. 480. 



A board of three persons, styled Board of Administration, has power 

 of management and control over certain State educational institutions, 

 including the schools for deaf and blind. — Laws, 1913, Ch. 287, p. 469. 



Kentucky. Kentucky is strictly of the Iowa type. A board of four 

 persons, styled Kentucky State Board of Control for Charitable Institu- 

 tions, has full management and control of the three asylums for the 

 insane and the feeble-minded institute, and examines them financially and 

 otherwise, purchasing supplies by bids, etc. Two members shall always 

 be selected from the political party which polled the largest number of 

 votes in the last preceding State election, and two members from the 

 political party casting the next largest number of votes. Members serve 

 for four years with a salary of $2,500 per annum. — Acts, 1906, Ch. 18, 

 p. 60; Acts, 1908, Ch. 28, p. 72.. 



Louisiana. Louisiana is of the Indiana type. It has a board of six 

 members, styled State Board of Charities and Corrections, of which the 

 governor is a member and chairman. The members serve for six years 

 without compensation. The board's duties are strictly visitorial without 

 administrative or executive power. It visits and inspects all State, parish, 

 or municipal institutions of a charitable, eleemosynary, correctional, or 

 reformatory character. — Acts, 1904, p. 361. 



Maine. Maine established a State Board of Charities and Corrections 

 in 1913. In the main this board follows the Indiana type. Private institu- 

 tions, by written request, may come under the supervision of the board. 



