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Otherwise supervision is confined to institutions receiving public aid. The 

 board is given executive power in the placing out of children. — Public 

 Law, 1913, Ch. 196, p. 242. 



Maryland. Maryland is of the Indiana type. A board of seven dis- 

 creet persons, at least two not residents of Baltimore, styled Board of 

 State Aid and Charities, investigates the whole system of State aid to 

 public and other institutions receiving such aid in the State, and for this 

 purpose investigates the condition and management of such institutions 

 and reports to the legislature. Members serve for two years without 

 compensation, and shall not be interested in contracts, nor hold official 

 position in an institution supervised. — Annotated Code, 1911, Vol. ii, 

 p. 1960. 



Massachusetts. Massachusetts is essentially of the Indiana type. A 

 board of nine persons, styled State Board of Charity, has general super- 

 vision of the State hospital, State farm, industrial schools for boys and 

 for girls, and the State sanatorium. The board is in two divisions: 

 (1) Division of State adult poor; (2) Division of State minor wards; 

 and has considerable executive authority in the transfer of paupers. 

 Members serve for five years with no compensation. All charitable insti- 

 tutions incorporated in this State make annual reports to the board, and 

 the board visits almshouses and advises overseers concerning plans for 

 new buildings, etc. — Revised Laws, 1902, Vol. i, p. 730; Supplement, 

 1902-08, pp. 649-651. 



Massachusetts has made several experiments with its board over the 

 insane. The latest change was in 1916. The State Board of Insanity, 

 hitherto existing, was abolished, and a Commission on Mental Diseases 

 was established. This consists of a director and four associate members, 

 appointed by the governor, and removable by him for cause. The director 

 and at least two of the associate members must be physicians and experts 

 in the care and treatment of the insane. The director receives a salary 

 of not over $7,500. The associate members serve without compensation. 

 The commission has general supervision of all public and private institu- 

 tions for insane, feeble-minded, or epileptic persons, but when so directed 

 by the governor, may assume the powers of the board of trustees of any 

 State institution under its supervision in any matter relative to the con- 

 duct or management thereof. — Revised Laws, 1902, p. 750; Supplement, 

 1902-08, p. 670; General Laws, 1916, Ch. 285. 



A board of five persons, two of them women, styled Board of Prison 

 Commissioners, has general supervision of State prison, reformatory, 

 jails, and house of correction. They appoint the wardens, make rules 

 for the purchase of supplies, etc. They serve for five years and the 

 chairman alone receives a compensation of $4,000. This board is of the 

 Iowa type. — Revised Laws, 1902, Vol. ii, p. 1868. 



Michigan. Michigan is of the Indiana type. A board of four persons, 

 styled State Board of Corrections and Charities, has merely power of 

 visitation over charitable, penal, pauper, and reformatory institutions, 

 and may not interfere with the board of control of the State prison or 



