82 HANDBOOK OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 



Membership. The League is composed of 79 associations (affiliated members), 

 having as an object the improvement of municipal government; 689 individuals 

 have been admitted to associate membership by the Board of Delegates. No dues. 

 Funds secured by contributions and sale of publications. 



Publications. 

 Proceedings of the National conference for good city government, held 



at Philadelphia, Jan. 25-26, 1894. Philadelphia, 1894. 8. o. p. 

 PROCEEDINGS of the [2d/3d-i4th] conference for good city government 

 and ist-i2th annual meeting of the National municipal league. 

 1894/95-1906. Philadelphia, 1895-1906. 8. 



Title varies slightly. 



Table of contents and list of authors: in Handbook, 1894-1904, p. 11-34. 



Price: $i per vol. 



A municipal program ; report of a committee of the National municipal 

 league, adopted by the league Nov. 17, 1899, together with explana- 

 tory and other papers. New York, London, 1900. 8. o. p. 

 Pamphlets (1-9) ; Leaflets (1-6) ; miscellaneous publications. 



See list in Handbook, 1894-1904. 

 Distribution. Exchange. On sale by the Secretary. Price list on application. 



National Prison Association of the United States of America. 

 Address. Secretary: Rev. J. L. Milligan, Allegheny, Pa. 



History. Incorporated in the State of New York, April 29, 1871, by a 

 committee appointed by the National Congress on Penitentiary and 

 Reformatory Discipline," held at Cincinnati, Oct. 1870, and organized 

 in May following; inactive from 1876 to its reorganization in 1883. 



Object. Amelioration of the laws in relation to public offenses and offenders and 

 the mode of procedure by which such laws are enforced; improvement of the 

 penal, correctional and reformatory institutions throughout the country, and 

 the management, government, and discipline thereof, including the appointment 

 of boards of control and other officers; the care of, and procuring suitable and 

 remunerative employment for, discharged prisoners, etc. 



Meetings. Annually at time and place determined by the executive council. 



Membership. Officers of prisons and persons interested in reformatory work 

 (annual dues, $5). 



Publications. 



Transactions of the 3d National prison reform congress, 1874; being 



the 3d annual report of the ... association. New York, 1874. 8. 

 Transactions of the 4th National prison reform congress, held in New 



York, 1876, being the report of the ... association ... for the 



years 1874 and 1875. New York, 1877. 8. 



"Transactions pub. as an appendix to 26th annual report of the Prison associa- 

 tion of New York (Albany, 1871. 8) ; also separate. 



