MAGDALEN FEMALE BENEVOLENT ASYLUM. Eighty-eighth & Eighty-ninth streets, between Fourth & Fifth avenues. Established December 6, 1844; incorporated May 9, 1846. Hon. John Duer, William C. Gilman, Treasurer. Isaac Lewis Peet, Recording Secretary. John D. Russ, Corresponding Secretary. Rensselaer N. Havens, Chairman Executive Committee. The objects of the Institution are-first, to meliorate the condition of prisoners, whether detained as witnesses, for trial, or finally convicted; second, the improvement of Prison discipline and government of State and County Prisons; third, the support and encouragement of reformed convicts after their discharge, by affording them employment, and sustaining them in their efforts to reform. The business of the Association is intrusted to a Committee on Finance, a Committee on Detentions, a Committee on Prison Discipline, and a Committee on Discharged Convicts, which, together with the officers, form the Executive Committee of the Association. Its charter gives it the power to establish a work-house, and make its duties to examine all our Prisons, and report their condition to the Legislature. Connected with the Association, and auxiliary to it, is a Female Department called "THE HOME," under the care of an Executive Committee of Ladies, which takes charge of discharged female convicts. The officers of this department are Catharine M. Sedgwick, First Directress. Sarah P. Doremus, Second Directress. Anna J. H. Fitch, Treasurer. Caroline M. Kirkland, Corresponding Secretary. Anna Curtis, Recording Secretary. (Appointed by the Executive Committee of the Prison Association.) HOUSE AND SCHOOL OF INDUSTRY. 100 West Sixteenth street. OFFICERS. Mrs. Nicholas Fish, President. 66 W. H. Le Roy, Vice President. 66 Wm Kent, Treasurer. Dr. Van Rensselaer, Recording Secretary. Miss K. Hone, Financial Secretary. 66 C. S. Jones, Secretary of the Visiting Committee. Mrs. R. Gracie, Corresponding Secretary. |