The President shall preside in all meetings, and subscribe all public acts of the Society. He may call special meetings whenever he may deem it expedient, and shall do so when requested in writing by five members. In his absence one of the Vice-Presidents may act in his place. ARTICLE III. The Secretaries shall keep fair records of the proceedings of the Society, and shall conduct its correspondence. ARTICLE IV. The Treasurer shall pay all orders of the Society or of the Acting Committee, signed by the presiding officer and the Secretary, and shall present a statement of the receipts and expenditures at each stated meeting of the Society, and an annual report at the annual meeting in the First month (January). All capital moneys, investments, securities and property belonging to the Society may be placed in the care and custody of such trust company as the Society may by resolution direct, for safe keeping and for the collection of the income and principal thereof. All investments and re-investments of capital money shall be made by direction of at least three members of the Finance Committee of the Society. All bequests and life subscriptions which may be received shall be safely invested, the income only thereupon to be applied to the current expenses of the Society. [CONTINUED ON THIRD PAGE OF COVER.] [Illustration: JOSHUA L. BAILY. President Pennsylvania Prison Society, 1907. See page 15.] NEW SERIES No. 46. THE JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE AND PHILANTHROPY PUBLISHED ANNUALLY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF “THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY” INSTITUTED MAY 8th, 1787 JANUARY, 1907 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, State House Row, Philadelphia. S. W. Cor. Fifth and Chestnut Sts. The 120th Annual Meeting of “THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY” was held on the afternoon of the First month (January), 24th, 1907, with SAMUEL BIDDLE as Chairman, and GEO. S. WETHERELL as Secretary. The Minutes of the 119th Annual meeting were read and approved, after which the Treasurer presented his report. Memorials on the death of the President, GEO. W. HALL, and the First Vice-President, the REV. JAMES ROBERTS, D. D., were submitted and ordered spread on the Minutes. The officers and the members of the Acting Committee for 1907 were elected (See next page). Article IV of the Constitution as amended was adopted. The Editorial Committee was directed to print 7,500 copies of the JOURNAL, and to make such alterations and additions as might be necessary. JOHN J. LYTLE, _Gen. Secretary_. Editorial Committee for 1907: REV. R. HEBER BARNES, Chairman; REV. J. F. OHL, DEBORAH C. LEEDS, JOSEPH C. NOBLIT, DR. WILLIAM C. STORKES.