ELEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE PRISON DISCIPLINE SOCIETY, BOSTON, MAY, 1836. Boston: PERKINS AND MARVIN, 114 WASHINGTON STREET. STEREOTYPED AT THE OSTON TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDERY. 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, Red in and to co-operate with all such Societies in accomplishing the objecí 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 Prisons, 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-Fresi dents 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 vacan cies 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. THE Annual Meeting was held at Park Street Church, Tuesday, May 24, at 11, A. M. Hon. SAMUEL T. ARMSTRONG, President, in the chair. The 88th Psalm, eight first and last verses, selected by a prisoner, as descriptive of himself in prison; and the 23d Psalm, six verses, selected by a convict after his discharge, as descriptive of his feelings through the mercy of the Lord, were read by Rev. Mr. BROWN. An abstract of the Annual Report was read by the Secretary, Rev. LOUIS DWIGHT. The Rev. Dr. JENKS moved, and the Rev. Dr. CODMAN seconded, the acceptance and printing of the Report. On motion of S. E. Cowes, Esq., of Portsmouth, N. H., seconded by Rev. Dr. PARK, it was Resolved, That we will give unusual prominence, at the present time, to the claims of Poor Lunatics, to save them from imprisonment, and provide for them Asylums. On motion of Rev. WM. CROSBY, of Charlestown, seconded by Rev. H. COLEMAN, it was Resolved, That we regard with peculiar satisfaction the introduction of religious influence into Insane Asylums, and the fact that judicious efforts of this kind are found by experience to be very soothing and restorative to the insane mind. |