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Oklahoma. Oklahoma is of the dual type. A Commissioner of Chari- 

 ties and Corrections, an elective office provided by the constitution, inves- 

 tigates the entire system of public charities and corrections, examines into 

 condition and management of all prisons, etc., and all public or private 

 retreats and asylums deriving their support wholly or in part from the 

 State. In 1909 there was created a State Board of Public Welfare, of 

 three members, not more than two from the same political party, wha 

 receive a salary of $3,000. This board has charge of the construction, 

 repair, maintenance, insurance, and operation of all buildings owned, 

 used, or occupied by or on behalf of the State; it has authority to purchase 

 all materials and perform all other duties necessary in the construction, 

 repair, and maintenance of such buildings; it has the custody and control 

 of all State property except military stores and supplies. This board re- 

 sembles the Board of Control of California and the Board of Control and 

 Supply of Rhode Island much more than it does the strictly administra- 

 tive board of Iowa or Illinois. Its control over charitable institutions 

 lies in its power over contracts for supplies for all State institutions. — 

 Constitution, Art. VI, §§ 27-30; Compiled Laws, 1909, pp. 1468, 1469, 

 §§ 7384-7395; p. 1738, §§ 8658-8673. 



Oregon. Oregon is of the administrative type. In 1911 a State Pur- 

 chasing Board was created, consisting of the governor, secretary of State, 

 and State treasurer, who employed a secretary at a salary of $2,500. In 

 1913 this board was abolished and the Oregon State Board of Control 

 was established to manage the State hospitals. State institution for the 

 feeble-minded, training school, penitentiary, school for blind, school for 

 deaf, tuberculosis hospital. State soldiers' home, and the capitol and 

 Supreme Court buildings. The personnel of the board was the same as 

 that of the State Purchasing Board which it replaced. — General Laws, 

 1911, Ch. 126, p. 1701; 1913, Ch. 78, p. 120. 



Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is of the Indiana type. It has a Board 

 of Public Charities of five persons, which has power to examine the 

 condition of all charitable, reformatory, or correctional institutions, finan- 

 cially and otherwise, their method of instruction, government, and man- 

 agement of their inmates, official conduct of trustees and officials. The 

 board visits all such institutions receiving State aid, and also city and 

 county jails, prisons, or almshouses. The board must approve new plans 

 for prisons, etc., and appoint visitors in each county to aid the board. It 

 may remove insane to State institutions. The board establishes psycho- 

 pathic wards at the insane hospitals. — Laws, 1913, p. 149; Purdon's 

 Digest (13th Ed.), Vol. i, pp. 588-592. 



Rhode Island. Rhode Island is of the dual type but has only a limited 

 State supervisory board. A body of five qualified electors of the State, 

 styled Board of Control and Supply, purchases and makes all contracts for 

 the purchase of supplies for all State charitable institutions, and has en- 

 tire supervision and control over and makes all contracts for construction, 

 repairs, alterations and improvements, and all work done in and about 



