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the grounds and buildings of such institutions. The board may authorize 

 the officer in charge of an institution to purchase materials and supplies 

 not to exceed $500 at one time, and to make necessary repairs not to 

 exceed $250 at one time. The method of making contracts by means of 

 advertised bids is specified in detail. The only appointive power the 

 board has except over its office force is in appointing a disbursing agent 

 at each institution. The board may in its discretion purchase supplies 

 over $500 in amount for any State office, board, or commission. The 

 board provides a uniform method of accounting and examines all books 

 and accounts of the institutions at least once in six months, and controls 

 the labor of prisoners. The chairman and secretary receive salary of 

 $3,000. The other members receive $2,000 each.— Acts, 1912, Ch. 825, 

 p. 187. 



A Board of State Charities and Corrections of nine persons, three 

 from Providence county, one from each of the other counties, and two 

 from the State at large, has oversight, management, and control of six 

 institutions located on the State farm at Cranston, appointing head offi- 

 cials and fixing all salaries. The board has executive functions concern- 

 ing the binding out of pauper children, paroling and discharging inmates. 

 Members receive no compensation. — General Laws, 1909, Ch. 360, p. 1332. 



A board of seven, styled Board of Female Visitors or Women's Ad- 

 visory Board, visits each institution where women are confined and 

 reports to the General Assembly. It has no power to interfere in any 

 way with the management of the institutions. — General Laws, 1909, Ch. 

 361, p. 1340. 



South Carolina. South Carolina entered the ranks of the supervisory 

 system in 1915 by creating a State Board of Charities and Corrections of 

 five members. The duties of the board "shall be strictly visitorial and 

 advisory without administrative or executive powers". It must visit, in 

 whole or by committee, ''inspect, and examine once a year or oftener, 

 the State, county, municipal, and private institutions which are of an 

 eleemosynary, charitable, correctional, or reformatory character, or which 

 are for the care, custody, or training of the defective, dependent, delin- 

 quent, or criminal classes, except that the hospitals for the insane, the 

 penitentiaries, and the reformatories shall be visited as often as once in 

 six months". The Board inspects and reports upon the workings and 

 results of chartered institutions or associations engaged in the care and 

 protection of homeless, dependent, defective, and delinquent children or 

 adults. Reports of inspections are sent to boards of supervisors of coun- 

 ties and councils of cities and to the officials in charge of the institutions. 

 All plans for new jails, reformatories, and almshouses must be submitted 

 to the board. The board appoints for each county or city a local com- 

 mittee of visitors of three persons, one a member of the local Board of 

 Health, and one of whom may be a woman. The governor may ask for 

 an investigation by the board of any institution receiving aid from the 

 State, and the Board has full powers in carrying on the investigation. 

 During such investigation the members receive a per diem of $5. Other- 

 wise the members receive no compensation, and are ineligible for the 



