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 OE THE SOCIETY. 1864. PRESIDENT, JAMES J. BARCLAY. VICE-PRESIDENTS, WILLIAM SHIPPEN, M. D. JOSEPH R. CHANDLER. TREASURER, EDWARD H. BONSALL. SECRETARIES, JOHN J. LYTLE, EDWARD TOWNSEND. COUNSELLORS, HENRY J. WILLIAMS, CHARLES GIBBONS. _Members of the Acting Committee._