The record-union., 1899-02-08
certainly result.
BOARDS OF TRUSTEES, OR MANA
GERS QE INSTITIITIQNS

telligent administration of affairs will
certainly result
BOARDS OF TRUSTEES, OR MANA
GERS, OF INSTITUTIONS.
Third. Each of our State institutions
has a Board of Trustees, or Managers,
for attending meetings of the board:
Each board has also Secretary and
Treasurer, who is nonresident at the
for doing what might just as we'll be
done at each sinstitution itself without
any increase of clerical force. and with
ing the accounts. The per diem and
mileage of the different Board of Man
ayers and of the clerks and Secretaries
during the year 1898 amounted to s25. 900.
This expense, we believe, can be easily
saved to the State and to the betterment
of the public service. We are of the
be abolished; that the Superintendent of
each of these institutions should be, as
he is by law in terms, charged with its
management and with the employment
and discharge of the different employees.
We therefore suggest and recommend
that these Superintendents shall be di-
rectly appointed by the Governor. to hold
Office until removed for neglect or in
competency upon charges preferred to
and and investigated by. him. The abo-
lition of the local boards and the pur-
suing of this course, would save the
State more than $4,000 per year, and in
crease the efficiency OF the management
sponsible for his appOintees and there
would be no shuff1ing or responsibility
from the Superintendent to the board
of local directors and from both to the
Governor; and the people, by reason
thereof. are too often unable to de-.
termine the reason for the existence of
any difficulty when such arises.
PRINTING.
Fourth. With regard to public printing
about which there has been much COM
ment, we beg leave to report that time
did not permit US to make a distinct in
we consider the amount of work that is
thrown upon that office during the ses-
sion of the Legislature, and the haste
with which the work must be accom-
plished, and the general proposition that
every State institution and officer is en-
titled to have whatever printing he de-
the ordering of printing or in the editing
of matter to be printed, it is difficult
without most extended investigation
the results But for the future. we
would recommend that each State insti-
tuition and officer be allowed, in the ap-
preparation for their support and mainte-
nance, sufficient sum for printing; that
when any printing is ordered. before its
execution it should be authorized by the
Board of Examiners, and when eOSted
it should be paid for by the officer or in
stitution ordering it, out of the, fund ap-
propriated for his or its maintenance.
which amount should go into the treas
ury, either to the credit of the. Printing
Department or else into the general fund.
In this way extravagant orders would
not be given, and it would be easier to
trace and keep an account of the work,
and the necessity for the work, done by
this Office. All work done In this office
should be charged for at price covering
it's cost, not including the cost of the
plant.
Fifth. We find that there is no uni
form system of bookkeeping In these var
ious institutions, but each seems to be
a model unto itself Yhis makes III It quite
the State to intelligently inspect the
books of any institution at any time
without more labor and time than ought
to be required. We have submitted
Principals, etc, for their inspection and
criticism, and while the opinions differ
as to any change being made in the
present forms, it is generally conceded
would result benefcially. We therefore
recommend that the Board of Examiners
be required to adopt a uniform system of
bookkeeping for each State institution,
so far as. it may be possible to do so.
Should this be done. the result would be,
that any one desiring to inspect the books
of the different institutions, would under
stand the books of each after he had
familiarized himself with the method of
bookkeeping by any one The head of
each institution should be held strictly
accountable for all supplies received and
issues made for the uses and benefits OF
the institution, therefore there should be
uniform system of bookkeeping. and
of checks, in order that an intelligent in
spection may be made and report thereof
submitted at any time.
SUPPLIES.
sixth. Under the existing system, ad-
vertising for supplies Is often done in the
a rgregate and for the entire list of sup
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