THE JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE AND PHILANTHROPY. (continued 2)

Section 3.—That the said inspectors shall have full power and authority to discharge the said criminals whenever they shall have served out the term of their sentence, less the number of days to which they are entitled under the provisions of this act.

Section 4.—That the said inspectors shall direct the warden or superintendent to give to each prisoner, who may in consequence of good conduct be discharged at an earlier period than he would otherwise have been entitled to, a certificate thereof, stating therein the number of days that have been deducted from his original sentence for good conduct.

Approved the first day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one.

MEMBERS.

Ashhurst, Lewis R. Armstrong, William Anderson, V. William Atmore, Frederick B. Brown, John A. Brown, Frederick Brown, Moses Brown, Thomas Wistar Brown, Abraham C. Brown, N. B. Brown, Benneville D. Brown, Mary D. Bell, John M. D., Biddle, William Biddle, John Barton, Isaac Burgin, George II., M. D. Bohlen, John Binney, Horace Jr. Bayard, James Beesley, B. Wistar Bowen, William E. Bettle, Samuel Bettle, William Baldwin, Matthias W. Barcroft, Stacy B. Bailey, Joshua L. Baily, Joel J. Burr, William H. Boardman, H. A. Branson, Samuel Bunting, Jacob T. Bacon, Richard W. Bacon, Josiah Brock, Jonathan Barclay, Andrew C. Brooke, Stephen H. Brooks, Henry Baines, Edward Budd, Thomas A. Bispham, Samuel Broadbent, S. Brant, Josiah Bringhurst, George Beaux, John Adolph Collins, Issac Cope, Alfred Cope, Herman Cope, M. C. Cope, Henry Cope, Francis R. Cope, Thomas P. Colwell, Stephen Caldwell, James E. Caldwell, William Warner Cresson, John C. Claghorn, John W. Chandler, Joseph R. Carter, John Campbell, James R. Comegys, B. B. Childs, George W. Child, H. T., M .D. Caley, Samuel Cooper, Joseph B. Chance, Jeremiah C. Coates, Benjamin Chamberlain, Lloyd Conrad, James M. Cook, Jay Corlies, Samuel Fisher Clark, Robert C. Collier, Daniel L. Comly, Franklin A. Demmé, Charles R. Ducachet, Henry W. Dawson, Mordecai L. Dorsey, William Dutilh, E. G. Ditzler, William U. Dreer, Ferdinand J. Dickinson, Mahlon H. Dickinson, John M. Davis, R. C. Derbyshire, Alexander J. Derbyshire, John Donnel, Robert Dennis, William H. Duane, William Earp, Thomas Evans, Charles M. D. Evans, William Jr. Evans, Robert E. Evans, J. Wistar Erringer, J. L. Edwards, William L. Ellison, John B. Emlen, Samuel Eyre, Edward E. Eyre, William Erety, George Farnum, John Fraley, Frederick Foulke, William P. Fullerton, Alex. Farr, John C. Frazier, John F. Ford, William Ford, John M. Furness, William H. French, William H. Field, Charles J. Fox, Henry C. Franciscus, Albert H. Funk, Charles W. Garrett, Thomas C. Greeves, James R. Gilpin, John F. Grigg, John Gummere, Charles J. Gardner, Richard, M. D. Hunt, Uriah Hockley, John Holloway, John S. Husband, Thomas J. Hughes, Joseph B. Homer, Henry Homer, Benjamin Hancock, Samuel P. Holman, D. Shepherd Hand, James C. Hazeltine, John Hastings, Matthew Hollinshead, Benjamin M. Huston, Samuel Hurley, Aaron A. Harbert, Charles Heiskell, Coulson Ingersoll, Joseph R. Ingram, William Iungerich, Lewis Jeanes, Joshua T. Jones, Isaac C. Jones, Jacob P. Jones, Isaac T. Jones, William D. Jones, Justus P. Jones, William Pennel Janney, Benjamin S. Jr. Jackson, Charles C. Johnson, Israel H. Johnson, Ellwood Johnston, Robert S. Justice, Philip S. Kimber, Thomas Kaighn, James E. Kane, Thomas L. Kean, Joseph Kelly, William D. Kelly, Henry H. Kintzing, William F. Kneedler, J. S. Knorr, G. Frederick Klapp, Joseph, M. D. Kitchen, James, M. D. Ketcham, John Knight, Edward C. Kidderlin, William J. Kester, John Jr. Kinsey, William Latimer, Thomas Lambert, John Lovering, Joseph S. Lovering, Joseph S. Jr. Lewis, Henry Jr. Lewis, Edward Lippincott, John Lippincott, Joshua Lytle, John J. Longstreth, J. Cooke Ludwig, William C. Landell, Washington J. Laing, Henry M. Lesley, Robert Lathrop, Charles C. Lynch, William Luther, R. Morris. McCall, Peter Meredith, Wm. M. Myers, John B. Morris, Isaac P. Massey, Robt. V. Maris, John M. Morris, Charles M. Morris, Wistar Morris, Caspar, M. D. Morris, Anthony P. Morris, Elliston P. Montgomery, Richard R. Mercer, Singleton A. Mullen, William J. Megarge, Charles Martin, William Martin, Abraham McAllister, John Jr. McAllister, John A. McAllister, William Y. MacAdam, William R. McAllister, F. H. Marsh, Benjamin V. Morton, Samuel C. Merrill, William O. B. Morrell, R. B. Mellor, Thomas Mitcheson, M. J. Norris, Samuel Neall, Daniel Newal, William Needles, William N. Nesmith, Alfred Nicholson, William Newman, C. L. Ormsby, Henry Orne, Benjamin Packard, Frederick A. Purves, William Parrish, William D. Parrish, Joseph, M. D. Poulson, Charles A. Perot, William S. Perot, Francis Perot, Charles P. Perot, T. Morris Patterson, Joseph Patterson, William C. Patterson, Morris Potter, Alonzo, D. D. Price, Eli K. Price, Richard Perkins, Samuel H. Pearsall, Robert Pitfield, Benjamin H. Pearson, William H. Peters, James Peterson, Lawrence Potts, Joseph Parry, Samuel Palmer, Charles Richardson, Richard Richardson, William H. Robins, John Jr. Ritter, Abraham Jr. Rasin, Warner M. Read, W. H. J. Robb, Charles Rehn, William L. Rutter, Clement S. Roberts, Algernon S. Ridgway, Thomas Rice, John Rudman, William C. Robinson, Thomas A. Randolph, Philip P. Rowland, A. G. Richards, George K. Smedley, Nathan Shippen, William, M. D. Scull, David Schaffer, William L. Scattergood, Joseph Shannon, Ellwood Sharpless, William P. Simons, George W. Stokes, Samuel E. Shoemaker, Benjamin H. Speakman, Thomas H. Starr, F. Ratchford Smith, William H. Saunders, McPherson Stokes, Edward D. Sloan, Samuel Smith, Joseph P. Stone, James N. Simes, Samuel Stuart, George H. Stewart, William P. Townsend, Edward Taylor, Franklin Taylor, John D. Taylor, George W. Trewendt, Theodore Tredick, B. T. Thomas, John Taber, George Troubat, Raymond, M. D. Thompson, John J. Troutman, George M. Thornley, Joseph H. Thissell, H. N. Van Pelt, Peter Vaux, George Wharton, Thomas F. Wood, Horatio C. Wood, Richard Jr. Welsh, William Welsh, Samuel Welsh, John Wetherill, John M. Williamson, Passmore White, John J. Wainright, William Wright, Samuel Wright, Isaac Willets, Jeremiah Wiegand, John Wilstach, William P. Williamson, Peter Warner, Redwood F. Walton, Coates Williams, Jacob T. Whilldin, Alexander Zell, T. Ellwood

LIFE MEMBERS.

On payment of twenty dollars and upwards.

Barclay, James J. Bache, Franklin, M. D. Bonsall, Edward H. Besson, Charles A. Cope, Caleb Ellis, Charles Fotteral, Stephen G. Hacker, Jeremiah Horton, John Hollingsworth, Thomas G. Knight, Reeve L. Leaming, J. Fisher Love, Alfred H. Longstreth, William W. Marshall, Richard M. Ogden, John M. Perot, Joseph Parrish, Dillwyn Powers, Thomas H. Potter, Thomas Perkins, Samuel H. Sharpless, Townsend Sharpless, Charles L. Sharpless, Samuel J. Steedman, Miss Rosa Turnpenny, Joseph C. Townsend, Samuel Whelen, E. S. Willits, A. A. Weightman, William Williams, Henry J. Yarnall, Charles Yarnall, Benjamin H.

CONSTITUTION

OF THE

Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.

When we consider that the obligations of benevolence which are founded on the precepts and examples of the Author of Christianity, are not cancelled by the follies or crimes of our fellow-creatures; and when we reflect upon the miseries which penury, hunger, cold, unnecessary severity, unwholesome apartments, and guilt, (the usual attendants of prisons,) involve with them, it becomes us to extend our compassion to that part of mankind, who are the subjects of those miseries. By the aid of humanity, their undue and illegal sufferings may be prevented; the links which should bind the whole family of mankind together, under all circumstances, be preserved unbroken; and such degrees and modes of punishment maybe discovered and suggested, as may, instead of continuing habits of vice, become the means of restoring our fellow-creatures to virtue and happiness. From a conviction of the truth and obligation of these principles, the subscribers have associated themselves under the title of “The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the miseries of Public Prisons.”

For effecting these purposes, they have adopted the following Constitution.

ARTICLE I.

The Officers of the Society shall consist of a President, two Vice-Presidents, two Secretaries, a Treasurer, two Counsellors, and an acting Committee; all of whom shall be chosen at the stated meeting to be held in the first month (January) of each year, and shall continue in office until their successors are elected; but in case an election from any cause shall not be then held, it shall be the duty of the President to call a special meeting of the Society within thirty days, for the purpose of holding such election, of which at least three days’ notice shall be given.

ARTICLE II.

The President shall preside in all meetings, and subscribe all public acts of the Society. He may call special meetings whenever he may deem it expedient; and shall do so when requested in writing by five members. In his absence, one of the Vice-Presidents may act in his place.

ARTICLE III.

The Secretaries shall keep fair records of the proceedings of the Society, and shall conduct its correspondence.

ARTICLE IV.

The Treasurer shall keep the moneys and securities, and pay all orders of the Society or of the Acting Committee, signed by the presiding officer and Secretary; and shall present a statement of the condition of the finances of the Society at each stated meeting thereof.

All bequests, donations and life subscriptions, shall be safely invested; only the income thereof to be applied to the current expenses of the Society.

ARTICLE V.

The Acting Committee shall consist of the officers of the Society, ex-officio, and forty-four other members. They shall visit the prison at least twice a month, inquire into the circumstances of the prisoners, and report such abuses as they shall discover, to the proper officers appointed to remedy them. They shall examine the influence of confinement on the morals of the prisoners. They shall keep regular minutes of their proceedings, which shall be submitted at every stated meeting of the Society; and shall be authorized to fill vacancies occurring in their own body, whether arising from death, or removal from the city; or from inability or neglect to visit the prisons in accordance with their regulations. They shall also have the sole power of electing new members.

ARTICLE VI.

Candidates for membership may be proposed at any meeting of the Society or of the Acting Committee; but no election shall take place within ten days after such nomination. Each member shall pay an annual contribution of two dollars; but the payment of twenty dollars at any one time shall constitute a life membership.

ARTICLE VII.

Honorary members may be elected at such times as the Society may deem expedient.

ARTICLE VIII.

The Society shall hold stated meetings on the fourth fifth-day (Thursday) in the months called January, April, July and October, of whom seven shall constitute a quorum.

ARTICLE IX.

No alterations of the Constitution shall be made, unless the same shall have been proposed at a stated meeting of the Society held not less than a month previous to the adoption of such alterations. All questions shall be decided where there is a division, by a majority of votes; in those where the Society is equally divided, the presiding officer shall have the casting vote.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.

President,— JAMES J. BARCLAY.

Vice-Presidents, ⎧TOWNSEND SHARPLESS, ⎩DR. WILLIAM SHIPPEN.

Treasurer,— EDWARD H. BONSALL.

Secretaries, ⎧JOHN J. LYTLE, ⎩EDWARD TOWNSEND.

Counsellors, ⎧HENRY J. WILLIAMS, ⎩SAMUEL H. PERKINS.

Members of the Acting Committee.

Charles Ellis, W. S. Perot, Thomas Latimer, John M. Wetherill, Samuel Caley, Abram C. Brown, Benjamin H. Pitfield, Isaac Barton, James E. Kaighn, Alfred H. Love, Jeremiah Willits, William H. Burr, Jacob T. Bunting, John C. Farr, George Taber, William J. Kiderlen, Mahlon H. Dickinson, William Ingram, James Peters, Robert E. Evans, Albert H. Franciscus, William R. MacAdam, Charles Palmer, Charles P. Perot, Charles C. Lathrop, Thomas A. Robinson, Samuel Emlen, William Dorsey, Abram Martin, R. B. Morrell, John Adolph Beaux, Dr. Wm. Armstrong, F. B. Atmore, Wm. Nicholson, Charles W. Funk, Philip P. Randolph, Joseph R. Chandler, Samuel Townsend, A. G. Roland, Coulson Heiskell, Benj. H. Shoemaker, C. L. Newman.

Visiting Committee on the Eastern Penitentiary.

Townsend Sharpless, Edward H. Bonsall, John J. Lytle, Edward Townsend, Samuel Caley, Abram C. Brown, Isaac Barton, James E. Kaighn, Alfred H. Love, Jeremiah Willits, William H. Burr, George Taber, William L. J. Kiderlen, Mahlon H. Dickinson, James Peters, Robert E. Evans, Albert H. Franciscus, William R. MacAdam, Charles Palmer, Samuel Emlen, William Dorsey, Robert B. Morrell, Frederick B. Atmore, William Nicholson, Charles W. Funk, Samuel Townsend, Albert G. Roland, Benj. H. Shoemaker.

Visiting Committee on County Prison.

William Shippen, M. D., Charles Ellis, William S. Perot, Thomas Latimer, John M. Wetherill, Benj. H. Pitfield, Jacob T. Bunting, John C. Farr, William Ingram, Charles P. Perot, Charles C. Lathrop, Thomas A. Robinson, Abram Martin, John Adolph Beaux, Wm. Armstrong, M. D., Philip P. Randolph, Joseph R. Chandler, Coulson Heiskell, C. L. Newman.

☞ Wm. J. Mullen is agent of the County Prison, appointed by the Inspectors, and acting under their direction, and also appointed by the Prison Society.