64 



Indiana University Studies 



has power to receive and disburse donations for relief of poor, and has 

 exclusive control of all public funds appropriated by city or county for 

 outdoor or temporary relief or aid to indigent, helpless, or poor. — Revised 

 Statutes, 1909, §§ 1316-1321, 1329-1332. 



Montana. Montana is somewhat of the Iowa type. There is a State 

 Board of Commissioners for the Insane, consisting of the governor, secre- 

 tary of State, and attorney-general, which has the management, control, 

 and supervision of the State insane asylum and of the State hospital for 

 inebriates. As first constituted it was merely a board of trustees. The 

 law has since been strengthened so that the board is more nearly a State 

 board of control for insane institutions and dependents outside of the 

 institutions. There is also a Board of Commissioners of Penal Institu- 

 tions, with the same personnel. — Revised Penal Code, 1907, §§ 9716, 9746- 

 9756; Laws, 1911, Ch. 131, p. 398; Laws, 1913, Ch. 57, p. 110. 



Nebraska. Nebraska belongs to the dual type. In 1913 there was 

 created a Board of Commissioners of State Institutions, which took over 

 the powers formerly exercised by the Board of Public Lands and Buildings 

 over State institutions. The members devote their whole time to the work, 

 and control the schools for the blind and deaf, industrial school, institu- 

 tions for the feeble-minded, orthopedic hospital, soldiers' and sailors' 

 home, hospitals for the insane. State penitentiary, and all charitable, 

 reformatory, and penal institutions that shall be established by law and 

 maintained by the State; appoint the heads of institutions and a few 

 of the more important under officials; and must investigate each institu- 

 tion without notice at least once in six months. The board has power to 

 summon witnesses. Supplies are purchased by the board except minor 

 purchases at their discretion, and monthly estimates are required. — Laws, 

 1913, Ch. 179, p. 535. 



An ex officio Board of Charities and Corrections consisting of the 

 governor, commissioner of public lands and buildings, and State superin- 

 tendent of public instruction inquires into the whole system of public 

 charities and methods and practices of correctional institutions of State 

 and counties, and inspects prisons, jails, asylums, reformatories, etc. It 

 also approves plans for new jails and lock-ups. — Annotated Statutes, 1913, 

 §§ 10318-10322, p. 3265. 



Nevada. Nevada is of the Iowa type. The governor, secretary of 

 State, and attorney-general constitute a Board of Prison Commissioners 

 which has administration of the State prison, and appoints the warden. 

 It also acts as a board of examiners with powers to examine all claims 

 against the State.— Compiled Laws, 1900, §§ 1420, 2029. 



New Hampshire. New Hampshire belongs to the dual system. There 

 is a board of five persons, styled State Board of Charities and Correc- 

 tions, which inspects all State and county charitable and correctional 

 institutions, except the State prison and the asylum for the insane at 

 Concord. 



In 1913 there was created a Board of Control with power over the 

 State hospital, industrial school for feeble-minded, and State sanatorium, 

 to take the place of the former separate boards of trustees. "Two capa- 



