ANNUAL REPORT. (continued 2)

The thing to be done, then, being ascertained, the next point for consideration is how to do it. Now, society may protect itself against habitual criminals in three ways, separately or in combination. It may deal with him so as to deter him, to reform him, or to get rid of him. It may so arrange and contrive its penalties as to frighten him from bad courses, or to incapacitate him from recurring to them, or to persuade him to amend them. And, putting out of view the very few whom it will or can hang, it has to effect these objects by such secondary punishments as lie within its reach, as the public purse will pay for, and public conscience and feeling will allow the State to inflict.

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, David S. Brown, Joseph D. Brown, Benneville D. Brown, Mary D. Bell, John M. D. Biddle, William Biddle, John Barton, Isaac Burgin, George H., M. D. Bohlen, John Binney, Horace, Jr. Bayard, James Beesley, T. E., M. D. 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. Bunting, Jacob T. Bacon, Richard W. Bacon, Josiah Brock, Jonathan Barclay, Andrew C. Brooke, Stephen H. Baines, Edward Budd, Thomas A. Bispham, Samuel Broadbent, S. Brant, Josiah Beaux, John Adolph Corse, J. M., M. D. Cope, Alfred 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 Carter, John E. Campbell, James R. Comegys, B. B. Childs, George W. Child, H. T., M. D. Chance, Jeremiah C. Coates, Benjamin Chamberlain, Lloyd Conrad, James M. Cooke, Jay 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. Davis, R. C. Derbyshire, Alexander J. Derbyshire, John 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. Elkinton, Joseph Elkinton, George M. Ellison, John B. Emlen, Samuel Eyre, Edward E. Eyre, William Erety, George Farnum, John Fraley, Frederick Fullerton, Alex. Farr, John C. Frazier, John F. Ford, William Ford, John M. Furness, William H. Field, Charles J. Fox, Henry C. Franciscus, Albert H. Funk, Charles W. Garrett, Thomas C. Griffin, E., M. D. Greeves, James R. Gilpin, John F. Grigg, John Gummere, Charles J. Gardiner, Richard, M. D. Hunt, Uriah Hockley, John Holloway, John S. Husband, Thomas J. Hughes, Joseph B. Homer, Henry Homer, Benjamin Hancock, Samuel P. Hand, James C. Hazeltine, John Hastings, Matthew Huston, Samuel Hacker, Morris Hacker, William Hunt, William, M. D. Hurley, Aaron A. Harbert, Charles Ingersoll, Joseph R. Ingram, William Iungerich, Lewis Jackson, Charles C. Janney, Benjamin S., Jr. Jeanes, Joshua T. Jenks, William P. Jones, Isaac C. Jones, Jacob P. Jones, Isaac T. Jones, William D. Jones, Justus P. Jones, William Pennel Johnson, Israel H. Johnson, Ellwood Johnston, Robert S. Justice, Philip S. Kaighn, James E. Kane, Thomas L. Kelly, William D. Kelly, Henry H. Ketcham, John Kiderlen, William L. J. Kimber, Thomas Kingsbury, Charles A., M. D. Kinsey, William Kirkpatrick, James A. Kintzing, William F. Kitchen, James, M. D. Kneedler, J. S. Knight, Edward C. Knorr, G. Frederick Klapp, Joseph, M. D. Laing, Henry M. Lambert, John Landell, Washington J. Lathrop, Charles C. Latimer, Thomas Leeds, Josiah W. Lewis, Henry, Jr. Lewis, Edward Lippincott, John Lippincott, Joshua Longstreth, J. Cooke Lovering, Joseph S. Lovering, Joseph S., Jr. Ludwig, William C. Lynch, William Lytle, John J. McCall, Peter Meredith, William M. Milliken, George Myers, John B. Morris, Isaac P. Massey, Robert 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 Needles, William N. Nesmith, Alfred Nicholson, William Neuman, L. C. Ormsby, Henry Orne, Benjamin 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, Morris Patterson, William C. Potter, Alonzo, D.D. Price, Eli K. Price, Richard Pearsall, Robert Pitfield, Benjamin H. Peters, James Peterson, Lawrence Potts, Joseph Parry, Samuel Palmer, Charles Perkins, Henry Quinn, John A. Richardson, Richard Richardson, William H. Robins, Thomas Robins, John, Jr. Ritter, Abraham, Jr. Rasin, Warner M. Read, W. H. J. Robb, Charles Rehn, William L. Rutter, Clement S. Ruth, John Roberts, Algernon S. Ridgway, Thomas 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. Smith, Nathan Stokes, Shmuel E. Shoemaker, Benjamin H. Speakman, Thomas H. Starr, F. Ratchford Saunders, McPherson Stokes, Edward D. Sloan, Samuel Smith, Joseph P. Stone, James N. Simes, Samuel Stuart, George H. Stewart, William S. Stevens, Edwin P. Townsend, Edward Taylor, Franklin Taylor, John D. Taylor, George W. Trewendt, Theodore Tredick, B. T. Thomas, John Taber, George Troutman, George M. Thornley, Joseph H. Thissel, 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. Wainwright, William Wright, Samuel Wright, Isaac Willets, Jeremiah Wiegand, John Wilstach, William P. Williamson, Peter Warner, Redwood F. Walton, Coates Williams, Jacob T. Wilson, Ellwood, M. D. Woodward, Charles W. 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. Foulke, William P. Hacker, Jeremiah Horton, John Hollingsworth, Thomas G. Knight, Reeve L. Learning, J. Fisher Love, Alfred H. Longstreth, William W. Marshall, Richard M. Ogden, John M. Perot, Joseph Perkins, Samuel H. Parrish, Dillwyn Powers, Thomas H. Potter, Thomas Sharpless, Townsend Sharpless, Charles L. Sharpless, Samuel J. Steedman, Miss Rosa Turnpenny, Joseph C. Townsend, Samuel Whelen, E. S. Willits, A. A. Weightman, William Wilhams, Henry J. Wain, S. Morris Yarnall, Charles Yarnall, Benjamin H.

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 fifty 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.