Chapter III: Part 3

Barclay, James J. Ogden, John M.
Bache, Franklin, M. D.
Bonsall, Edward H. Perot, Joseph
Besson, Charles A. Perkins, Samuel H.
Parrish, Dillwyn
Cope, Caleb Powers, Thomas H.
Potter, Thomas
Ellis, Charles
Sharpless, Townsend
Fotteral, Stephen G. Sharpless, Charles L.
Foulke, William P. Sharpless, Samuel J.
Steedman, Miss Rosa
Hacker, Jeremiah
Horton, John Turnpenny, Joseph C.
Hollingsworth, Thomas G. Townsend, Samuel

Knight, Reeve L. Whelen, E. S.
Willits, A. A.
Learning, J. Fisher Weightman, William
Love, Alfred H. Wilhams, Henry J.
Longstreth, William W. Wain, S. Morris

Marshall, Richard M. 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.

OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY.

PRESIDENT,--JAMES J. BARCLAY.

VICE PRESIDENTS, { TOWNSEND SHARPLESS,
{ WILLIAM SHIPPEN, M. D.

TREASURER,--EDWARD H. BONSALL.

{ JOHN J. LYTLE,
SECRETARIES, { EDWARD TOWNSEND.

{ HENRY J. WILLIAMS,
COUNSELLORS, { CHARLES GIBBONS.

_Members of the Acting Committee._

Charles Ellis, Mahlon H. Dickinson, Joseph R. Chandler,
William S. Perot, William Ingram, Samuel Townsend,
Thomas Latimer, James Peters, Albert G. Roland,
John M. Wetherill, Robert E. Evans, Benj. H. Shoemaker,
Abram C. Brown, Charles Palmer, Lewis C. Neuman,
Benjamin H. Pitfield, Charles P. Perot, Wm. Warner Caldwell,
James E. Kaighn, Charles C. Lathrop, Henry Perkins,
Alfred H. Love, William Dorsey, George M. Elkinton,
Jeremiah Willits, Abram Martin, William R. MacAdam,
William H. Burr, John Adolph Beaux, J. M. Corse, M. D.,
Jacob T. Bunting, Wm. Armstrong, M. D., E. Griffin, M. D.,
John C. Farr, Wm. Nicholson, William Hacker,
George Taber, Charles W. Funk, John E. Carter.
William L. J. Kiderlen, Philip P. Randolph,

_Visiting Committee on the Eastern Penitentiary._

Townsend Sharpless, George Taber, William Nicholson,
Edward H. Bonsall, William L. J. Kiderlen, Charles W. Funk,
John J. Lytle, Mahlon H. Dickinson, Samuel Townsend,
Edward Townsend, James Peters, Albert G. Roland,
Abram C. Brown, Robert E. Evans, Benj. H. Shoemaker,
James E. Kaighn, William R. MacAdam, William Hacker,
Alfred H. Love, Charles Palmer, J. M. Corse, M. D.,
Jeremiah Willits, William Dorsey, E. Griffin, M. D.
William H. Burr,

_Visiting Committee on the County Prison._

William Shippen, M.D., John C. Farr, Philip P. Randolph,
Charles Ellis, William Ingram, Joseph R. Chandler,
William S. Perot, Charles P. Perot, L. C. Neuman,
Thomas Latimer, Charles C. Lathrop, Henry Perkins,
John M. Wetherill, Abram Martin, George M. Elkinton,
Benj. H. Pitfield, John Adolph Beaux, Wm. Warner Caldwell,
Jacob T. Bunting, Wm. Armstrong, M.D., John E. Carter.

👉 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.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Less than one-sixth the size of the cells in the corridors which were then completed in our penitentiary, as described by the same writer, to wit: eleven feet nine inches long, seven feet six inches wide, and sixteen feet high to the top of the arched ceiling.

[2] William J. Mullen.

[Transcriber's Note:

Dialect, obsolete and alternative spellings were left unchanged. Printing errors, such as backwards or upside down letters, were corrected; duplicate words were deleted; missing punctuation was added.]