CORRESPONDING MEMBERS.
Reading edition
Senor Soldan, Peru, South America.
John S. Richards, Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania.
Hon. Townsend Haines, West Chester, Chester Co., Pennsylvania.
Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania.
Hon. Charles W. Higgins, Pottsville, Schuylkill Co., Pennsylvania.
Charles Lott, Lottsville, Warren Co., Pennsylvania.
Morris C. Jones, Bethlehem, Northampton Co., Pennsylvania.
Henry Eckroid, Muncy, Lycoming Co., Pennsylvania.
George Willits, Catawissa, Columbia Co., Pennsylvania.
Wm. A. Thomas, Bellefonte, Centre Co., Pennsylvania.
Dr. David, Copenhagen, Denmark, Europe.
Robert Smeal, Glasgow, Scotland.
Rev. E. C. Winis, New York.
Hon. John Princkle Jones, Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania.
Hon. John Nesbit Cunningham, Wilksbarre, Luzerne Co., Penna.
Hon. Warren J. Woodward, Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania.
Hon. Henry G. Long, Lancaster, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.
Hon. A. L. Hays, Lancaster, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.
Hon. John Peirson, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co., Pennsylvania.
Dr. John Atlee, Lancaster, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania.
William J. Allinson, Burlington, New Jersey.
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.