_On Police Matrons in Station Houses_: Mrs. P. W. Lawrence, Dr. Emily J. Ingram, Mary S. Wetherell. _On Prison Sunday_: Rev. R. Heber Barnes, Rev. J. F. Ohl, Rev. F. H. Senft. Rev. H. L. Duhring, D. D., Rev. Philip Lamerdin, _On Legislation_: Rev. J. F. Ohl, Joseph Noblit, William Scattergood. Rev. H. C. Meyer, Rev. R. Heber Barnes, [Illustration: THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY. Exterior of Office, S. W. Cor. Fifth and Chestnut Streets.] JOURNAL OF PRISON DISCIPLINE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTIETH YEAR 1787 OF 1907 THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT OF JOHN J. LYTLE, GENERAL SECRETARY In submitting this, my Seventeenth Annual Report, it is with renewed feelings of devout thankfulness to my Heavenly Father that He has spared my life through another year, and given me the health and strength to perform a service so near and dear to my heart. In one respect the work of the Pennsylvania Prison Society is unique. Besides the General Secretary, whose labors are confined chiefly to the Eastern Penitentiary, and the Agent for the County Prison, the Society has an “Acting Committee” of fifty members, who by two legislative enactments have the rights of official visitors. The first of these acts became operative in 1829. This was supplemented by the act approved March 20, 1903, which is as follows: 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 I. Be it enacted, etc., That the active or visiting committee of any society heretofore incorporated and now existing in this 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_. THE EASTERN PENITENTIARY