or of carrying out some of the numerous optional functions of government. In more recent years many of these boards have been abolished and their duties transferred to the chief boards above mentioned.
The Board of Control.By a law which became effective on July 1, 1898, a board of three persons, appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate, was given the power to manage, control, and govern the charitable and penal institutions of the State. When the State Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis was established by law in 1905, it also was placed under the Board of Control. Likewise the Board of Control was directed by the General Assembly to provide for the detention and treatment of dipsomaniacs and inebriates at one or more of the hospitals for the insane. The departments thus created were to be known as hospitals for inebriates. By an act of the Thirty-fourth General Assembly, in 1911, the care and management of the College for the Blind was placed under the care of the State Board of Education, and in 1917 the State School for the Deaf was likewise given to their care.
The members of the Board of Control of State Institutions hold office for a term of six years, one of their number retiring every two years. Each member receives $4000 per year for his services, and is allowed all necessary travelling expenses.
The duties of the Board of Control are numerous and often trying, for they have many minor officials to superintend, the purchase and regulation of supplies to look after, the maintenance of a uniform system of bookkeeping, and
