Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-04-25

Sec. :. Clerical. expert or other as
sistance shall not be employed BY any
state board, institution, commission,
officer or department without the APP
propal OF the board of control. Such
board. institution. commission. officer or
department. being IN need OF clerical, ex-
pert or other assistance shall make ap-
plication to the board of control setting
forth the reasons for such need and if
the board OF control finds that such
assistance Is necessary. II shall authorize
such board. institution. commission.
officer or department TO employ such
assistance. The salary or compensation
of all persons who are appointed or
ennployed by any state board, institution,
commission, officer or department shall
be fixed by the board of control. but
whenever the law fixes the maximum
limit 10 be expended by any such board,
institution, commission. officer or depart
ment for clerical, expert or other assist
ance the board OF control shall not
authorize the expenditure of moneys IN
excess of such limit, and where the law
fixes the salary or per diem OF per-
son appointed by such board, institu
ton. commission. officer or department,
the board of control shall not have
power TO change such salary or per
diem. All statutes whether passed here
tofore or at this session shall be sub
ject to the foregoing provisions.
Sec. g. The words board of control
are hereby inserted in lieu of the words
board of visitors TO state institutions"
as used in the Public Statutes and the
acts of 1908, 1910, 1912, 1915 and the
General Laws.
Sec. =. Section OF No. 70 of the
acts of 1915 (Sec. 627 of the General
Laws, as proposed) is hereby amended
so as to read as follows:
Sec. l. (Sec. 6z7 G. ID The
members OF the board of control, the
auditor of accounts. the chairman of the
finance committee of the. senate, chair
man Of the ways and means committee
of the house of representatives and chair
man Of the appropriation committee of
the house of representatives shall con-
stitute a committee on budget; provided,
however, that the chairman of such
committee may designate a member Of
such committee who shall be member
of the committee on budget in lieu of
said chairman The governor shall be
the chairman of the committee on bud
get and the auditor of accounts Its sec
rotary. Said secretary shall keep the
minutes of each meeting of the commit
tee III book kept for that purpose and
such minutes shall be a public record.
| The members of such committee shall
receive their necessary expenses incur
red in the performance of their duties.
and the chairman OF the committee of
the senate and house of Representatives
aforementioned or members designated
by said chairmen, shall each receive four
dollars q day for time actually spent in
the performance of their duties while
the General Assembly is not in session.
| Said secretary may expend such sums
as the board OF control deems necessary
for clerical assistance in carrying out
! the provisions of this act, but such ex-
penditure shall not exceed FIVE hundred
dollars in any biennial fiscal period
Sec. s. The board of control shall
have power to examine each institution
j receiving aid from the state, directly or
indirectly. and if in the opinion of the
board moneys derived from the state are
not being properly expended by such an
institution, may suspend further payment
of such moneys until the board IS salts
fed that moneys will be properly ex-
pended.
Sec, O. Section of No. 235 of the
| acts of 1915 is hereby amended so as
to read as follows:
Sec L A board, commission, officer
or department shall not cause to be
printed, at the expense Of the state, any
report, paper or document until the
printing of the same has been author
lied by the board of control which
authorization shall designate the number
of pages, the kind of binding and the
number of copies thereof to be printed.
Sec. 10. The words board of control
are hereby inserted in lieu OF the words
board of public printing" as used in
? IL IL = 7
Sec II. Sec. 6oI7 of the Public Stat
/ utes (Sec. 6e78 OF the General Laws, as
proposed) is hereby amended 50 as to
Sec. 6oIz. (sec. 6o78 G. l. The
board Of control shall annually. and as
often as it deems proper, visit the state
prison. house of correction. Vermont in
dustrial school, Vermont state hospital
for the insane. Brattleboro retreat. Yer
mont state school for feeble-rninded chill
dren, and any private retreat or hospital
for the insane within the state, and the
Austine Institution, examine into the
! regulation and general management Of
each institution see that the purpose and
design thereof Is carried into effect, ex-
anime the condition and treatment of
prisoners and patients confined therein,
inquire into all alleged abuses or neglect
of duty, hear the grievances of prisoners
and patients apart from officers and
keepers thereof, and investigate or cause
to be investigated such cases as. in its
judgment, require special investigation,
and suggest to and advise the director of
state institutions or the trustees or per
f sons in charge of or IN such institutions
as TO such changes and alterations IN the
management thereof as It deems. proper.
! The governor may, in his discretion, ap-
point a woman, a citizen OF this state,
TO act with said board when performing
its duties under this section The duties
Of such woman shall be only TO examine
into the regulations and management Of
each institution 50 far as relates to the
+ female persons therein confined Such