71 Pa. Stat. § 1504
The General Agent and Secretary of the Board of Public Charities shall hold his office for three years, unless sooner removed; he shall be a member of the board ex-officio; and it shall be his duty to cause a correct record of its proceedings to be kept, oversee and conduct its out-door business, visit all charitable, penal, reformatory, and correctional institutions in the State at least once in each year, except as hereinafter provided, and as much oftener as the board may direct; he shall prepare a series of interrogatories, with the necessary accompanying blanks, to the several institutions of charity, reform, and correction in the State, and to those having charge of the poor in the several counties thereof, or any subdivision of the same, with a view to illustrate in his annual report the cause and best treatment of pauperism and crime, and shall have free access to all reports and returns now required by law to be made; and he may also propose, for the approval of the board, such general investigations as he may think best. He shall be paid annually the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000), and his additional traveling expenses.
71 P.S. § 1504