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Utah. Utah belongs to the trustee type. There is a board of cor- 

 rections and a board of insanity, but they are merely boards of trustees 

 for single institutions. — Compiled Laws, 1907, §§ 2155, 2220. 



Vermont. Vermont belongs to the dual system. An ex officio Board 

 of Visitors to State Institutions, consisting of the governor, lieutenant- 

 governor, and speaker of the house of representatives, visits the prison, 

 house of correction, industrial school, hospital for insane, and any private 

 retreat or hospital for insane within the State; it examines regulations 

 and general management and the treatment of prisoners. The governor 

 may also appoint a woman on the board. A board of three Supervisors 

 of Insane visits the Vermont State Hospital and the Brattleboro retreat, 

 and any other hospital or place where insane are confined, and investi- 

 gates the treatment of cases. It has the general supervision of insane 

 not in confinement. A Board of Penal Institutions of three members 

 supervises the State prison, house of correction, and industrial school, 

 and inspects the discipline and sanitary conditions, etc.; — Public Statutes^ 

 1906, §6017; Laws, 1910, p. 126; Laws, 1912, p. 170. 



There is also a State purchasing agent appointed by the governor for 

 two years at a salary of $2,500. He contracts for and purchases all fuel, 

 light, provisions, water, supplies, materials, and equipment for the use, 

 management, maintenance and construction of new buildings for the 

 hospital for the insane, prison, house of correction, industrial school, and 

 State house, the normal and agricultural schools, and for any and all 

 other buildings or institutions constructed, managed, and maintained by 

 the State, and for all departments and officials. The New Hampshire and 

 Vermont laws for purchasing agents are on the same plan. — Laws, 

 1912, p. 323. 



Virginia. Virginia is of the Indiana type. A board of five persons, 

 styled Board of Charities and Corrections, has strictly visitorial and ad- 

 visory duties without administrative or executive powers; inspects and 

 examines State, municipal, county, and private institutions which are of 

 an eleemosynary, charitable, correctional, or reformatory character, or 

 which are for the custody or training of defective, dependent, delinquent, 

 or criminal classes. It also inspects chartered institutions, and approves 

 plans for new jails, reformatories, etc. It appoints a committee of three 

 local visitors for each county or city. — Acts, 1908, Ch. 276, p. 395. 



Washington. Washington is of the Iowa type. A State Board of 

 Control of three persons has full power to manage and govern State 

 charitable institutions, has custody and control of State capitol buildings 

 and grounds, annually visits State eleemosynary institutions, examines 

 system of accounts and financial management generally, and has power 

 to provide a uniform system of accounting. It supervises State tuber- 

 culosis hospitals. Members receive a salary of $3,000. — General Statutes, 

 1909, §§ 8931-8956, p. 1989; Laws, 1913, p. 597. 



West Virginia. West Virginia is of the Iowa type. A State Board 

 of Control, of three members, has full power to manage, direct, control, 

 and govern State charitable institutions except the educational. It has 

 charge and control of the financial and business affairs of the State 



