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Florida. Board of Commissioners of State Institutions.
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Florida Hospital for the Insane administrative files, 1885-1914.
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1.00 cubic ft. 6.00 v.
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The Board of Commissioners of State Institutions was created in 1868 (Article V, Section 20, 1868 Constitution) and consisted of the Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Comptroller, Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Commissioner of Agriculture (General Commissioner of Lands and Immigration prior to 1885) and, until 1885, the Adjutant General. The Board controlled state hospitals, correctional institutions, the construction of public buildings, the ownership of Seminole Indian reservation lands, the Governor's Mansion Commission, and the buildings in the Capitol Center Complex (except the Capitol). The Board maintained prison workshops and alcoholic rehabilitation centers; licensed airports; insured public buildings under its control; and held title to every patent, copyright or trademark owned by the state. The Board was abolished in 1969 with its functions passing to various departments of the reorganized Executive Department (Ch. 69-106, Laws).
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This series contains the incoming and outgoing correspondence of the Board of Commissioners of State Institutions relating to the care of indigent insane in state institutions. The series documents the Board's administration of the state hospital in Chattahoochee (now Florida State Hospital) from 1885-1914, when it was subsequently called the Florida Asylum for the Indigent Insane, Asylum for Indigent Lunatics, Florida Asylum for the Insane, and Florida Hospital for the Insane.
The incoming correspondence, 1885-1914, is arranged under general subject headings of administration; building construction and improvement; patients; supplies and purchasing; and transportation. Replies to incoming letters are noted on the reverse of the copy. The outgoing correspondence is contained in bound letterpress books, 1894-1909. There is an index in the front of each bound volume.
In addition, this series contains an Order Book, 1893-1897, which lists supplies ordered by the hospital, and a Daybook, 1885-1888, which has receipts and disbursements of the hospital and financial records for pay patients.
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