The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 50) November 1911Pennsylvania Prison Society
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The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 50) November 1911
Pennsylvania Prison Society
Charities -- Periodicals; Prisons -- Periodicals
Section 4. If any such official visitor shall violate any of the
prohibitions herein contained, any warden, manager, overseer, or
superintendent of any such jail, penitentiary, penal or reformatory
institution, may apply to any court of common pleas in the county
wherein such institution may be situated, for a rule upon such
visitor to show cause why he or she should not be deprived of his or
her office; and upon proof to the satisfaction of said court being
made, such court shall enter a decree against such official visitor,
depriving him or her of all rights, privileges, and functions of
official visitor.
APPROVED--The 14th day of May, A. D. 1909.
EDWIN S. STUART.
AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE
Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons.
SECTION 1.--_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met, and it is
hereby enacted by the authority of the same_, That all and every the
persons who shall at the time of the passing of this Act be members
of the Society called “The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the
Miseries of Public Prisons,” shall be and they are hereby created and
declared to be one body, politic and corporate, by the name, style and
title of “The Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of
Public Prisons,” and by the same name shall have perpetual succession,
and shall be able to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded in all
courts of record or elsewhere, and to take and receive, hold and enjoy,
by purchase, grant, devise, or bequest to them and their successors,
lands, tenements, rents, annuities, franchises, hereditaments, goods
and chattels of whatsoever nature, kind, or quality soever, real,
personal, or mixed, or choses in action, and the same from time to
time to sell, grant, devise, alien, or dispose of; _provided_ That the
clear yearly value or income of the necessary houses, lands, tenements,
rents, annuities, and other hereditaments, and real estate of the said
corporation, and the interest of money by it lent, shall not exceed
the sum of five thousand dollars; and also to make and have a common
seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew at pleasure; and also to
ordain, establish, and put in execution such by-laws, ordinances, and
regulations as shall appear necessary and convenient for the government
of the said corporation, not being contrary to this Charter or the
Constitution and laws of the United States, or of this Commonwealth,
and generally to do all and singular the matters and things which
to them it shall lawfully appertain to do for the well-being of the
said corporation, and the due management and ordering of the affairs
thereof; and provided further, that the objects of the Society shall
be confined to the alleviation of the miseries of public prisons, the
improvement of prison discipline and relief of discharged prisoners.
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