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NEW SERIESNos. 47 and 48PUBLISHED ANNUALLY
BY THE
Pennsylvania Prison Society
INSTITUTED MAY 8, 1787
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THE JOURNAL
OF
PRISON DISCIPLINE
AND
PHILANTHROPY
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JANUARY, 1909
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OFFICE: STATE HOUSE ROW
S. W. CORNER FIFTH AND CHESTNUT STREETS
PHILADELPHIA, PA.
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OFFICIAL VISITORS.
No person who is not an official visitor of the prison, or who has nota written permission, according to such rules as the Inspectors may adoptas aforesaid, shall be allowed to visit the same; the official visitors are:the Governor, the Speaker and members of the Senate; the Speaker andmembers of the House of Representatives; the Secretary of the Commonwealth;the Judges of the Supreme Court; the Attorney-General and hisDeputies; the President and Associate Judges of all the courts in theState; the Mayor and Recorders of the cities of Philadelphia, Lancaster,and Pittsburg; Commissioners and Sheriffs of the several Counties; andthe “Acting Committee of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating theMiseries of Public Prisons.” (Note: Now named “The PennsylvaniaPrison Society.”)—Section 7, Act of April 23, 1829.
The above was supplemented by the following Act, approved March20, 1903:
AN ACT.
To make active or visiting committees of societies incorporated for thepurpose of visiting and instructing prisoners official visitors of penaland reformatory institutions.
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the active or visiting committeeof any society heretofore incorporated and now existing in the Commonwealthfor the purpose of visiting and instructing prisoners, or personsconfined in any penal or reformatory institution, and alleviating theirmiseries, 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, andfunctions as are vested in the official visitors of prisons and penitentiaries,as now prescribed by law: Provided, That no active or visiting committeeof 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, inwriting, under its corporate seal, to the warden, superintendent or otherofficer in charge of such jail, or other officer in charge of any such jail orother penal institution.
Approved—The 20th day of March, A. D. 1903.
The foregoing is a true and correct copy of the Act of the GeneralAssembly No. 48.
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Right Rev. William White, D. D., LL. D.
First President of The Pennsylvania Prison Society, from 1787 to 1836.
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