WM. PRESTON LANE, JR. ? GOVERNOR. 613

Article 1. Name.

The name of this Association shall be the Prisoners Aid
Association of Maryland.

Article 2. Objects.

Section 1. The object of this Association shall be to
promote the spiritual, temporal and moral welfare of those
who are in prison or other places of confinement or lately
discharged therefrom; the improvement of the condition
of persons whether detained for trial or finally convicted
or as witnesses; studying the causes and prevention of
crime; the support and encouragement of reformed con-
victs after their discharge by affording them an opportu-
nity of obtaining an honest livelihood and sustaining them
in their efforts to reform; to visit the inmates of the
asylums, almshouses, jails, penal, correctional and refor-
matory 'institutions of the City of Baltimore and State
of Maryland; and to promote techniques and practices
found to be beneficial in the handling and treatment of
those punished for crime, by cooperation with penal
authorities.

Section 2. Its operations shall be carried on through-
out the State of Maryland, and its principal offices shall
be located in the City of Baltimore.

Section 3. The said Association by the name, style and
title aforesaid shall be able and capable at law or in
equity to sue and be sued, contract and be contracted with,
plead and be impleaded in any Court or before any judge
or justice in any and all manner of suits, complaints, pleas,
matters and demands of whatever nature or kind or form
there may be, and all and every matter and thing to do in
as full and effectual manner as any other person or persons
and body corporate within the State of Maryland can or
may..

Section 4. The Association shall have full power and
authority to make, give and use a common seal with such
device and inscription as said corporation shall adopt and
the same to break, alter and renew at pleasure.

Section 5. The said Association shall have the right
through its accredited officer, officers, or committee or
committees, to visit the City and county jails and all other
State, City or County reformatory, penal or correctional
institutions which now or shall hereafter receive financial
aid from the State of Maryland or the Mayor and City