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PHILADELPHIA:
J. B. CHANDLER, PRINTER, 806 & 808 CHESTNUT STREET.
1864.
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Rooms of the Philadelphia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public
Prisons. }
At a meeting of the Acting Committee of the Philadelphia Society for
Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, held on the evening of the
First Month, (January) 21, 1864, the Editorial Board, (appointed to take
charge of the Journal and papers, and the Annual Report,) consisting of
Joseph R. Chandler, James J. Barclay, Edward H. Bonsall, and James M.
Corse, M. D.,[1] presented the Annual Report, which, having been
considered and approved, was ordered to be transmitted to the Society.
Footnote 1:
It may be proper to state that Townsend Sharpless, one of the
Vice-Presidents of the Society, was appointed on this Board, but was
prevented by sickness from taking part in its labors, and he died
before the Report was made to the Acting Committee.
At the Annual Meeting of the Society, held First Month, (January) 28,
1864, the Report of the “Acting Committee.” was presented, and after
consideration, was referred back to the Acting Committee, with
instructions to cause the whole (or such parts thereof as might be
deemed best) to be printed in the usual form, with any other matter that
should be thought advisable.
At a meeting of the Acting Committee, Second Month (February) 11, 1864,
it was ordered that the Annual Report, signed by the President and
Secretary, be referred to the members by whom it was proposed, with
instructions to them to cause a suitable number of copies thereof to be
printed.
JOHN J. LYTLE, Secretary.
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