Review of the County Jails in Pennsylvania: Official Report ... Issued as a Prologue to No. 59 of the Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy, Volumes 1-151856 |
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Page 6 - WITNESSETH, that the Guardians for the Relief and Employment of the Poor of the City of Philadelphia, the District of Southwark, and the Townships of the Northern Liberties...
Page 13 - ... if the party complaining shall appear before the magistrate who may have taken recognizance or made the commitment, or before the court in which the indictment shall be, and acknowledge to have received satisfaction for such injury and damage...
Page 3 - THE following resolution was adopted at a meeting of the Board of...
Page 13 - In all cases where a person shall, on the complaint of another, be bound by recognizance to appear, or shall, for want of security, be committed, or shall be indicted for an assault and battery or other misdemeanor, to the injury and damage of the party complaining, and not charged to have been done with intent to commit a felony, or not being an infamous crime, and for which there shall also be a remedy, by action...
Page 5 - All persons who may be convicted according to the existing laws of this commonwealth, before the Mayor, Recorder, or any Alderman, of the city of Philadelphia, or before any Alderman or Justice of the Peace of the county of Philadelphia as a vagrant or disorderly person, shall be sentenced to suffer separate or solitary confinement at...
Page 6 - States," as the same remains on file in this office. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the secretary's office to be affixed, the day and year above written.
Page 1 - ... going on everywhere under the stimulus of the thirst of gain. . . . From north to south, from east to west, the whole country is like a perfect fair. . . . And yet when one has not penetrated to the centre of the Empire and seen the great towns Han-yang, Ou-tchang-fou, and Han-keou, facing one another, it is impossible to form an adequate idea of the amount of internal trade. What did the introduction of the treaty port system add to this? Hue's concluding remarks, about Hankow, make one wonder:...
Page 9 - ... been so long depending for carrying on its work. When you can, with reason, ask a man to aerate his lungs, with his Head submerged in water, then, and not till then, speak to a confirmed drinker, while under this influence, of " exerting his will ;" reproach him with want of
Page 5 - Philadelphia as a vagrant or disorderly person, shall be sentenced to suffer separate or solitary confinement at bard labor in the Philadelphia County Prison for the term of one month, and be fed, clothed and treated as convicts in said prison are directed to be fed, clothed and treated. Provided, That the inspectors may discharge persons committed as vagrants and disorderly, or send them to the House of Employment of the Alms House, there...
Page 13 - ... damage, it shall be lawful for the magistrate, in his discretion, to discharge the recognizance which may have been taken for the appearance of the defendant, or in case of committal, to discharge the prisoner, or for the court also where such proceeding has been returned to the court, in their discretion, to order a nolle prosequi to be entered on the indictment, as the case may require,, upon payment of costs...