12 Statistical Table of twenty Penitentiaries in 1850, 34 34 36 38 38 44 State Prison at Auburn, New York,. PART III. -HOUSES OF REFUGE, AND STATE FARMS, Labor and Sympathy of Sabbath Teachers,. 67 What needs to be done for their Relief,..... 71 DONE FOR DISCHARGED CONVICTS. Aid and Assistance from Contractors,..... An Agent to look out for discharged Convicts; obtain Employment for them, and watch over them,..... 68 70 72 Testimony of legislative Documents in Massachusetts, 72! Testimony of the Resident Physician of the 78 Testimony of the Superintendent of the 79 Testimony of the resident Physician of the 79 Statistical Table of Twenty-three Asylums for the Insane,.. 87 CONSTITUTION OF THE Prison Discipline Society. ARTICLE 1. This Society shall be called the PRISON DISCIPLINE SOCIETY ART. 2. It shall be the object of this Society to promote the improvement of Public Prisons. ART. 3. It shall be the duty of this Society to take measures for effecting the formation of one or more Prison Discipline Societies in each of the United States, and to co-operate with all such Societies in accomplishing the object specified in the second article of this Constitution. ART. 4. Any Society, having the same object in view, which shall become auxiliary to this, and shall contribute to its funds, shall thereby secure for the Prison, in the State where such Society is located, special attention from this Society. ART. 5. Each subscriber of two dollars, annually, shall be a Member. ART. 6. Each subscriber of thirty dollars, at one time, shall be a Member for Life. ART. 7. Each subscriber of ten dollars, annually, shall be a Director. ART. 8. Each subscriber of one hundred dollars, or who shall by one additional payment increase his original subscription to one hundred dollars, shall be a Director for Life. ART. 9. The Officers of this Society shall be a President, as many Vice-Presidents as shall be deemed expedient, a Treasurer, and a Secretary, to be chosen annually, and a Board of Managers, whose duty it shall be to conduct the business of the Society. This Board shall consist of six clergymen and six laymen, of whom nine shall reside in the city of Boston, and five shall constitute a quorum. Every Minister of the Gospel, who is a Member of this Society, shall be entitled to meet and deliberate with the Board of Managers. The Managers shall call special meetings of the Society, and fill such vacancies as may occur, by death or otherwise, in their own Board. ART. 10. The President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, and Secretary, shall be, ex officio, Members of the Board of Managers. ART. 11. Directors shall be entitled to meet and vote at all meetings of the Board of Managers. ART. 12. The annual meetings of this Society shall be held in Boston, on the week of the General Election, when, besides choosing the officers as specified in the ninth article, the accounts of the Treasurer shall be presented, and the proceedings of the foregoing year reported. ART. 13. The Managers shall meet at such time and place, in the city of Boston, as they shall appoint. ART. 14. At the meetings of the Society, and of the Managers, the President, or, in his absence, the Vice-President first on the list then present, and in the absence of the President and of all the Vice-Presidents, such Member as shall be appointed for that purpose, shall preside. ART. 15. The Secretary, in concurrence with two of the Managers, or, in the absence of the Secretary, any three of the Managers, may call special meetings of the Board. ART. 16. The minutes of every meeting shall be signed by the Chairman or Secretary. ART. 17. The Managers shall have the power of appointing such persons as have rendered essential services to the Society either Members for Life or Directors for Life. ART. 18. No alteration shall be made in this Constitution except by the Socie ty, at an annual meeting, on the recommendation of the Board of Managers. ANNUAL MEETING. 1850. THE Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Prison Discipline Society was held in Park Street Church Vestry, on Monday, May 27, 1850, at 12 o'clock, A. M. A quorum being present, the Hon. SAMUEL A ELIOT took the chair, and, at his request, the Rev. WILLIAM JENKS, D. D., opened the meeting with prayer. The first business of the meeting was the choice of officers for the ensuing year. For this purpose, a committee of two, consisting of Hon. DANIEL SAFFORD and Dr. WM. R. LAWRENCE, was appointed to distribute and collect the votes. The votes being collected, it was found that Hon. SAMUEL A. ELIOT was unanimously elected President, in the place of the Hon. THEODORE LYMAN, deceased, and WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT and H. M. WILLIS were elected additional Vice-Presidents. A complete list of the officers will be found near the close of this Report. The second item of business was the presentation of the Report of the Treasurer, CHARLES H. MILLS, Esq., which, in the absence of the Treasurer, was read by the President. The Treasurer's Report, as thus read, was accepted, and placed in the hands of the Board of Managers, as printed near the close of this Report. The third item of business was the presentation of the Report of the Board of Managers, and the reading of an abstract of the same by the Secretary. The Report, parts of which were read, was accepted, and referred to the committee under whose direction it was prepared, to be printed, with such modifications and additions as they should sce fit. It was then voted, after prayer by the Rev. BARON STOW, D. D., to adjourn sine die. ANNUAL REPORT. MAY 27, 1850. THE Managers of the Prison Discipline Society, in presenting their Twenty-Fifth Annual Report, notice the death of THEODORE LYMAN, the President of the Society. In death, however, as in life, he showed the strength of his attachment to the cause in which we are engaged. He gave $22,500 while he lived, as an unknown benefactor, to the State Farm School at Westboro', Massachusetts; and at death he gave, by will, $50,000 to the same Institution, and $10,000 to the Farm School on Thompson's Island, in Boston Harbor-all for the benefit of JUVENILE DELINQUENTS. In addition to these things, we remember his urbanity, his kindness, his caution, his wisdom, his benevolence, his munificence, his shrinking delicacy at display and ostentation, his Christian spirit, his constancy, his promptitude, his punctuality, his integrity, his firmness, his courage, his private worth, his public service, his largeness of heart, his quiet efficiency, his faithful love of the honorable, useful, and good, and his unspeakable contempt of the injurious, inflated, and base; and if there be any other good qualities which mark Nature's Noblemen, we shall think of them as belonging (without eulogy) to him. Besides the President of the Society, we have lost JOHN R. ADAN, a wise counsellor of the Society, and several years one of the Managers, and JAMES MEANS, who had been many years one of the Auditors, and one of the Managers of the Society from its formation twenty-four years. There have gone, also, from our number into eternity, EDWARD H. ROBBINS, JOSEPH BALCH, HENRY SIGOURNEY, JOHN D. WILLIAMS, and SAMUEL T. ARMSTRONG, all of Boston; DUDLEY PHELPS, of Groton, Massachusetts; SAMUEL MILLER, of Princeton, New Jersey; and CHARLES CHAUNCEY, of Philadel phia, well known and true men, and all of them long-tried friends of the Society. ARRANGEMENT OF THE REPORT. PART I. Valuable Documents on Penitentiaries, Houses of Refuge, Lunatic Asylums, and Miscellaneous Matters, closely connected with the Improvement of Prisons, Heating, and Ventilation. PART II. State Prisons in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island; Auburn, Sing Sing, New York; New Jersey; New Penitentiary in Philadelphia; Penitentiary at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania; Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio; Penitentiary in Michigan. Statistical Table of Twenty Penitentiaries in 1850. PART III. n; Houses of Refuge and State Farm Schools; House of Refuge and State Farm in Maine; House of Reformation at South Boston State Farm School at Westboro'; House of Refuge in Providence, Rhode Island; House of Refuge in Connecticut; House of Refuge in New York City; House of Refuge at Roches ter, New York; House of Refuge at Kingston, New Jersey; House of Refuge for Colored Juvenile Delinquents in Philadelphia; House of Refuge in Philadelphia for White Children; House of Refuge in Baltimore; House of Refuge in Cincinnati, Ohio; with Statistical Table. PART IV. What can be done for Discharged Convicts? PART V. Adequate Provision not yet made for the Insane Poor in the United States; Statistical Table of Twenty-three Insane Asylums in 1850. |