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Orange county: Residence, Goshen Dr. J. H. Thompson, Rev.
Floyd A. Crane; residence, Newburgh - Dr. H. V. R. Montfort,
Grant Edgar, William McCrea; residence, Middletown
D. Friend, Hon. J. G. Wilkin.

Hon. J.
Orleans county: Residence, Albion - Edwin R. Reynolds, Daniel W.
Frye, U. C. Rogers, Rev. E. B. Walsworth.
Oswego county Residence, Oswego Hon. O. J. Harmon, G. C.
McWhorter, Hon. J. A. Place, Dr. A. S. Coe, G. Mollison; residence,
Pulaski - Dr. A. S. Low.

Otsego county

Residence, Cooperstown - Elihu Phinney, Dr. H. Lathrop, S. M. Shaw, G. P. Keese, Miss Susan Cooper, Dr. W. T. Bassett.

Putnam county Residence, Carmel - Hon. W. S. Clapp, J. D. Little,
James R. Weeks.
Queens county: Residence, Manhasset C. F. Homans, W. H. Onder-
donk; residence, Hempstead - Rev. Wm. H. Moore, D. D.; residence,
Westbury Benj. D. Hicks, Mrs. Jas. R. Willets; residence, Glen
Cove Edwin A. Hopkins; residence, Astoria - Rev. Washington
Rodman, Miss E. H. Rodman, Dr. J. D. Trask.
Rensselaer county: Residence, Troy-
Residence, Troy

Amasa R. Moore, H. W. Houghton, Rev. N. B. Remick, Rev. William Irvin, Samuel Foster.

Richmond county Residence, West Brighton Edward B. Merrill, Nicoll Floyd, Mrs. J. S. Lowell, Mrs. Nicoll Floyd; residence, Richmond C. H.- Dr. Ephraim Clark, Dr. I. L. Milspaugh, Stephen Stephens, Miss H. Moore, Miss Mundy.

Rockland county: Residence, Stony Point -- Dr. Wm. Govan; residence, Haverstraw-Alonzo Wheeler; residence, New City - Cyrus M. Crum, Spencer Wood; residence, Nyack-Seth Cole; residence, Tomkins Cove Walter T. Searing, Mrs. Laura Wood.

Saratoga county: Residençe, Ballston Spa.-J. W. Horton, Dr. Morgan Lewis; residence, Saratoga Springs -- Prof. Hiram A. Wilson, Dr. L. E. Whiting, Oscar F. Stiles.

Seneca county: Residence, Waterloo

Hon. S. G. Hadley, Dr. O. S. Wells, Rev. S. H. Gridley; residence, Ovid-Hon. George Franklin, Dr. John B. Chapin, Dr. A. Bolter; residence, Seneca Falls - Dr. Heath.

Schoharie county: Residence, Schoharie Rev. Jacob Heck, Thomas
W. Zeh, Jr.

Schenectady county: Residence, Schenectady - Dr. B. A. Mynderse,
Hon. W. T. L. Sanders, S. B. Howe.
Schuyler county: Residence, Watkins

Dr. M. L. Bennett, Charles

T. Andrews, Frederick Davis; residence, Burdett Dr. Nelson Nivison.

St. Lawrence county: Residence, Canton -- Geo. Robinson, Rev. James
Gardner, H. H. Judd, Dr. J. C. Preston; residence, Ogdensburg --
Dr. B. F. Sherman, Prof. R. G. Pettibone.

Steuben county Residence, Bath, Guy H. McMaster, Z. L. Parker,
Rev. O. K. Howard, Rev. James M. Platt, Dr. A. H. Cruttenden;
residence, Corning-Dr. C. May, F. A. Williams.
Suffolk county: Residence, Riverhead
Benjamin, Thos. Cook, G. O. Wells.

N. W. Foster, Dr. R. H.

Sullivan county: Residence, Monticello - Charles F. Canedy, Dr.
Edward Quinlan, James Strong; residence, Grahamville - Dr. J.
M. La Moree.

Tioga county Residence, Owego - Hon. Wm. Smyth, Rev. J. A.
Ostrander, A. Abel, V. N. Russell, Hon. T. I. Chatfield, G. B. Good-
rich, A. Coburn, H. D. Pinney.
Tompkins county: Residence, Ithaca

Prof. Wm. Channing Russell,
Prof. James Law, Prof. William D. Wilson, Marcus Lyon, Orange
P. Hyde.
Ulster county: Residence, Kingston-Hon. James G. Lindsley, Mrs.
Mary W. Reynolds, Rev. Geo. Waters, D. D.: residence, New
Paltz Dr. C. W. Deyo; residence, Whiteport - Edmund Doremus.
Warren county Residence, Lake George Samuel R. Archibald,
Francis G. Crosby, Elias S. Harris.

Washington county: Residence, Salem -- R. G. Atwood, James Blashfield, E. P. Sprague, C. R. Hlawey.

Wayne county Residence, Lyons-John L. Cole, Wm. Van Master, Charles Ennis; residence, Palmyra - Isaac Bronson, L. Lyons, Mrs. Pliny Sexton, Charles McLouth; residence, Walworth-Hon. Lucien T. Youmans.

Westchester county: Residence, White Plains - Dr. H. E. Schmid, Mrs. J. O. Dyckman, M. Prudhomme, Rev. F. V. Van Kleeck; residence, Sing Sing Dr. G. J. Fishee, Mrs. Catherine E. Van Cortlandt, L. G. Bostwick, S. G. Howe, Miss E. Roe.

Wyoming county: Residence, Warsaw Hon. Augustus Frank, Rev. J. E. Nassau.

Yates county Residence, Penn Yan-Myron Hamlin, Joseph F. Crosby.

CHARTER AND CONSTITUTION

OF THE

PRISON ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK.

AN ACT to incorporate the Prison Association of New York. PASSED May 9, 1846, by a two-thirds vote. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. All such persons as are now or hereafter shall become members to the said association, pursuant to the constitution thereof, shall and are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of "The Prison Association of New York," and by that name have the powers that, by the third title of the eighteenth chapter of the first part of the Revised Statutes, are declared to belong to every corporation; and shall be capable of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate, real or personal, for the use of said corporation; provided that such real estate shall never exceed the yearly value of ten thousand dollars, nor be applied to any other purpose than those for which the corporation is formed.

2. The estate and concerns of said corporation shall be managed and conducted by its executive committee, in conformity to the constitution of the said corporation; and the following articles that now form the constitution of the association shall continue to be the fundamental laws and constitution thereof, subject to alteration in the mode therein prescribed.

ARTICLE I.

The objects of the association shall be:

1. The amelioration of the condition of prisoners, whether detained for trial, or finally convicted, or as witnesses.

2. The improvement of prison discipline, and the government of prisons, whether for cities, counties or states.

3. The support and encouragement of reformed convicts after their discharge, by affording them the means of obtaining an honest livelihood, and sustaining them in their efforts at reform.

ARTICLE II.

[SENATE

The officers of the society shall be a president, vice-presidents, a corresponding secretary, a recording secretary, a treasurer and an executive committee. There shall be the following standing committees, viz.: A finance committee, a committee on detention, a committee on prison discipline, and a committee on discharged convicts. The number of the executive committee shall consist of not more than thirty-five, of whom not more than ten shall be officers of the society, and not more than twenty-five shall be persons other than officers.

ARTICLE III.

The officers named in the preceding article shall be ex-officio members of the executive committee, who shall choose one of their number chairman thereof.

ARTICLE IV.

The executive committee shall meet once in each month, and keep 1 regular minutes of their proceedings. They shall have a general superintendence and direction of the affairs of the society, and shall annually report to the society all their proceedings, and such other matters as shall be likely to advance the ends of the association.

ARTICLE V.

The society shall meet annually in the city of New York, at such time and place as the executive committee shall appoint, and at such other times as the president, or, in his absence, one of the vice-presidents shall designate.

ARTICLE VI.

Any person contributing annually to the funds of the association not less than five dollars shall, owing to such contribution, be a member thereof. A contribution of five hundred dollars shall constitute a life patron; a contribution of one hundred dollars shall constitute an honorary member of the association for life; and a contribution of fifty dollars shall constitute a member of the association for life. Honorary and corresponding members may, from time to time, be appointed by the executive committee.

ARTICLE VII.

A female department shall be formed, consisting of such females as shall be selected by the executive committee, who shall have charge of the interest and welfare of prisoners of their sex, under such regulations as the executive committee shall adopt.

ARTICLE VIII.

The officers of the association shall be chosen annually, at the annual meeting, at which time such persons may be elected honorary members as shall have rendered essential service to the cause of prison discipline.

ARTICLE IX.

Any society having the same object in view may become auxiliary to this association, by contributing to its funds and co-operating with it.

ARTICLE X.

The executive committee shall have power to add to any of the standing committees such persons as, in their opinion, may be likely to promote the objects of the society; and shall have power to fill any vacancy which may occur in any of the offices of the association, intermediate the annual meetings.

ARTICLE XI.

This constitution may be amended by a vote of the majority of the society, at any meeting thereof, provided notice of the amendment has been given at the next preceding meeting.

The officers selected for the current year, under the constitution, shall continue to be the officers thereof until others shall be duly chosen in their places.

And it is hereby further enacted, that no manager of said society shall receive any compensation for his services.

§ 3. The said executive committee shall have power to establish a work-house in the county of New York, and, in their discretion, to receive and take into the said work-house all such persons as shall be taken up and committed as vagrants or disorderly persons in said city, as the court of general sessions of the peace, or the court of special sessions, or the court of oyer and terminer, in said county, or any police magistrate, or the commissioner of the alms-house, may deem proper objects; and the said executive committee shall have the same powers to keep, detain, employ and govern the said persons as are now by law conferred on the keepers of the bridewell or penitentiary in said city.

§ 4. The said executive committee may, from time to time, make by-laws, ordinances and regulations relative to the management and disposition of the estate and concerns of said association, and the management, government, instruction, discipline and employment of the persons so, as aforesaid, committed to the said work-house, not contrary to law, as they may deem proper; and may appoint such officers, agents and servants as they may deem necessary to transact the business of the said association, and may designate their duties. And the said executive committee shall make an annual report to the Legislature, and to the corporation of the city of New York, of the number of persons received by them into the said work-house, the disposition which shall be made of them by instructing or employing them therein, the receipts and expenditures of said executive committee, and generally all such facts and particulars as may exhibit the operations of the said association.

§ 5. The said executive committee shall have power, during the minority of any of the persons so committed to the said work-house, to bind out the said persons so being minors, as aforesaid, as apprentices or servants, with their consent, during their minority, to such