AN ACT.
To make active or visiting committees of societies incorporated for the purpose of visiting and instructing prisoners official visitors of penal and reformatory institutions.
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the active or visiting committee of any society heretofore incorporated and now existing in the Commonwealth for the purpose of visiting and instructing prisoners, or persons confined in any penal or reformatory institution, and alleviating their miseries, shall be and are hereby made official visitors of any jail, penitentiary, or other penal or reformatory institution in this Commonwealth, maintained at the public expense, with the same powers, privileges, and functions as are vested in the official visitors of prisons and penitentiaries, as now prescribed by law: Provided, That no active or visiting committee of any such society shall be entitled to visit such jails or penal institutions, under this act, unless notice of the names of the members of such committee, and the terms of their appointment, is given by such society, in writing, under its corporate seal, to the warden, superintendent or other officer in charge of such jail, or other officer in charge of any such jail or other penal institution.
Approved—The 20th day of March, A. D. 1903.
Saml. W. Pennypacker.
The foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Act of the General Assembly No. 48.
Frank M. Fuller,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Right Rev. William White, D. D., LL. D.
First President of The Pennsylvania Prison Society, from 1787 to 1836.
New Series Nos. 47 and 48.
THE JOURNAL
OF
PRISON DISCIPLINE
AND
PHILANTHROPY
PUBLISHED ANNUALLY
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF “THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY”
INSTITUTED MAY 8TH, 1787
JANUARY, 1909
OFFICE: STATE HOUSE ROW
S. W. Corner Fifth and Chestnut Streets
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
THE
Pennsylvania Prison Society
(FORMERLY CALLED THE PHILADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR ALLEVIATING THE MISERIES OF PUBLIC PRISONS.)
Place of Meeting, S. W. Cor. Fifth and Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia.
The 122d Annual Meeting of “The Pennsylvania Prison Society” was held First month (January) 28th, 1909.
The meeting was called to order by the President, Joshua L. Baily, at whose request the Vice-President, the Rev. H. L. Duhring, D. D., took the chair.
The Secretary, John J. Lytle, being absent on account of illness, Albert H. Votaw was appointed Secretary pro tem.
The Minutes of the 121st Annual Meeting were read and approved.
The Treasurer presented a report which was satisfactory. (See page 15.)
The officers and the members of the Acting Committee for 1909 were elected. (See pages 3 and 4.)
George S. Wetherell, on behalf of the Acting Committee, presented a draft of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the Society. This report was referred to the Acting Committee for further consideration.
The Nominating Committee presented the following resolution:
“In recognition of the long, faithful and unselfish services of John J. Lytle as Secretary of ‘The Pennsylvania Prison Society,’ the Nominating Committee recommend that he be elected Honorary Secretary....”
The resolution was adopted unanimously by a rising vote.
Albert H. Votaw, Secretary.