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position of paid secretary of the board while members or within twelve 

 months of retirement from the board. — Acts, 1915, p. 132. 



South Dakota. South Dakota belongs to the dual type. An adminis- 

 trative board, styled Board of Charities and Corrections, of five mem- 

 bers, controls penitentiary, insane hospitals, schools for deaf, dumb, and 

 blind, and the training schools. It has full power to examine the institu- 

 tions financially and otherwise, to prescribe methods of managem'ent and 

 manner of keeping accounts. — Revised Code, 1903, p. 34; Civil Code, § 171. 



A board of three persons, styled Woman's Investigating Board, is a 

 committee of investigation for the State institutions. It is its duty to 

 visit at least twice a year each of these institutions, to inquire into and 

 investigate the sanitary condition of each and the treatment and care of 

 the inmates. Members serve for two years and receive a fee of $3 a day 

 for actual service. — Civil Code, 1903, § 307, p. 57. 



Tennessee. Tennessee now belongs to the dual system. Prior to 1915 

 there was only a supervisory board, the Board of State Charities, which 

 investigated the whole system of public charities and correctional insti- 

 tutions of the State, examined into conditions and management thereof, 

 especially of prisons, jails, infirmaries, etc., and approved plans for new 

 jails. 



In 1915 there was created the Tennessee Board of Control, consisting 

 of three electors of the State, one for each grand division thereof, to 

 serve for six years. One member of the board is elected fiscal supervisor 

 and one president. The latter receives a salary of $4,000; the other 

 members receive $3,600. The board has full power to manage and govern 

 nine State institutions; the school for the blind and for the deaf and 

 dumb, three State hospitals for the insane, industrial school, reformatory 

 for boys, and two State penitentiaries. It is given no power over other 

 than State institutions. The act emphasizes efficiency of fiscal manage- 

 ment, accounting and purchase of supplies, and in general follows the 

 typical board of control law.— Code, 1896, § 2672, p. 638; Public Acts, 

 1915, p. 44, Ch. 20. 



Texas. Texas is of the Iowa type in the penal field. A Board of 

 Prison Commissioners, of three members, is vested with the exclusive 

 management and control of the prison system of the State, and the care 

 and treatment of prisoners. Each member receives a salary of $300 per 

 month, and must devote his entire time to the discharge of the duties of 

 his office, and shall not engage in any other occupation or business dur- 

 ing his term of office; nor shall any member be interested in contracts. 



Texas has also a State Purchasing Agent over the State institutions 

 for insane, deaf and dumb, blind, orphans, and the Confederate Home. 

 In the strictly charitable field Texas is therefore somewhat of the Iowa 

 type, since there is central control over one phase of the administration 

 of charitable institutions. Each institution, however, is managed by a 

 separate board of trustees. — Laws, 1899, Ch. 85, p. 138; Laws, 1909, p. 

 274; Vernon's Sayles Texas Civil Statutes, 1914, Vol. iv, § 7325, p. 4591; 

 Laws, 1910, pp. 143-159; General Laws, 1913, p. 191. 



