Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1917-01-05

firmcd by the senate or approved by
the board, who in his Judgment Is not
performing the duties of his
office. This board of control should
meet at least once each month, assume
the duties now performed by the board
of visitors to state institutions, and
also have the powers of visitation and
over all institutions re-
cciving state aid, directly or indirectly,
and if, in the opinion of the board,
derived from the state are not
being properly expended, suspend fur
Their payment thereof until satisfied that
the fault has been corrected. They
should receive no further cmolument
than their official salaries, but should
be allowed their actual and necessary
expenses. The salaries of the chiefs of
the different departments should be
fixed by statute but the number of
employees allowed to each department,
the purpose of their employment and
their compensation should be in all
cases determined by the board of con
troll. Each institution, department or
Office should receive q fixed appropria-
ton for its support and out of this
fixed appropriation should be paid every
expense incident to the conduct of the
board or office, including
even the printing of its biennial
report. The board should require
reports Of all work done and
the substance of these reports should be
given monthly to the public.
/. State Treasurer.-The salary of
this official should be $4,000. His
duties as treasurer should be the same
as at present; and in addition thereto,
if it is thought best to continue the
department of weights and measures,
he should act as chief of the bureau of
weights and measures and, subject to
the approval of the board of control,
appoint such inspectors as may seem
best.
Q. Secretary of State.-The salary
of this official should be $4,000 as sec
rotary of state; 81 900 as chief of the
bureau for licensing motor vehicles, and
$500 as chief of the bureau of publicity,
and he should also act as a member of
the board of corporation tax appeals.
8. Auditor of Accounts.-The salary
of this official should be $4,000 His
duties should be confined to auditing
the bills presented against the state
and further, he should act as a member
of the board of corporation tax APP
peals.
4. Attorney General.-The salary of
this official should be $4,000. His
duties should be the same as at pres
ent. He should not have the right to
contract for assistance, legal or other
wise, within or without his office, in
behalf of the state, without the APP
proval of the board of control, or for
detective service in an amount i'll cX-
cess of 5000 i'll any case without the
approval of said board.
5. Bank Commissioner-Thc salary
of this official should be $4,000. His
duties should be the same as at pres
cnt. All fees received from investment
companies should be paid into the state
treasury without being charged with
the expense OF supervision. The say.
ings banks and trust companies should
no longer be assessed with the expense
of supervision.
6. Commissioner of Taxes.-The sal
airy of this official should be $4,000
His duties should be the same as at
present. He should also look after the
licensing of peddlers, auctioneers, for
eign corporations and fourth class
liquor licenses. In fact, he should be
the sole licensing authority except for
the licensing of motor vehicles.
7. Purchasing Agent.-The results
of the conduct of this Office show con-
clusively that it has worked a consid-
cradle saving to the state. When the
bill establishing this office was original
ly introduced, it was proposed that the
purchasing agent approve all the
bills for material bought and
forward them to the auditor for
audit and payment. AS it was unccr-
tain just how the plan would work
1T was thought best in the final analy-
Sis to permit the purchasing agent to
draw on the treasury, pay the bills, di-
rect and return the recciptcd bills as
vouchers for the money drawn. / now
recommend that. this practice be dis.
continued and that the purchasing
agent approve all bills for material pur-
chased and forward them to the auditor
of accounts for audit and payment.
8. Director of State Institutions
This officer should exercise all the func.
tions of the board of penal institutions
trustees of the state hospital, trustees
of the state school for feeble minded
children and act as member of the
board of control.
g. Commissioner of Agriculture and
Forestry. officer should perform
the duties now performed by the board
of agriculture and forestry, the com
missioner of agriculture, the state for
ester, the live stock commissioner anC
the state ornithologist and he should
be director of the state schools of agri
culture and should be O member of the
board Of control
10. State Highway Commissioner
The duties of this official should be the
same as at present. He should have
for assistants a proper number of dis
trict highway commissioners at an an
nual salary of $1,000 each.
II. Director of Public Health.-This
officer should exercise all the duties OF
the board of health, be ex-officio chief
'of the state laboratory, chief of the
tuberculosis commission and with two
physicians duly appointed, sit as Q
board of health to issue orders on occa
sions of public peril, discharge inmates
from the state hospital, Brattleborc
Retreat and school for feeble minded
children, and have the power of visi
tation ut all penal and reformatory
institutions and at all institutions
where the insane are confined. If this
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