The Warden or Superintendent of the Prison is hereby authorized to search or to have searched any person coming to the Prison as a visitor, or in any other capacity, who is suspected of having any weapon or other implement which may be used to injure any convict or person, or in assisting any convict to escape from imprisonment, or any spirituous liquor, drug, medicine, poison, opium, morphine, or any other kind or character of narcotics, upon his person. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the State Prison not exceeding five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court. Approved the eleventh day of May, A. D. 1911. JOHN K. TENER, _Governor_. REPORT OF THE ACTING COMMITTEE FOR THE YEAR 1910 TO THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY. During the year 1910 the monthly meetings of the Acting Committee have been regularly held with the usual exception of two meetings of the summer months. It has been a year of much interest and importance to students of penology and especially to the active workers who have charge of our prisons and reformatories. PROBATION FOR ADULTS. In the State of Pennsylvania the law providing for probation or suspended sentences for adult offenders under the care of probation officers, to whom reports must be made, has been in effect for almost eighteen months. Very general approval is expressed regarding the operation of this law. It is believed to be a very efficient means of restoring those who have lapsed from the right path to better methods of life and to a deeper realization of their duties to society. They have not become inoculated with the prison virus. The law applies to certain classes of crimes and to first offenders. It is understood that much of the efficiency of such a law depends on the character and vigor of the probation officer, who should be most earnest in presenting before such offenders higher ideals of civic virtue. THE INDETERMINATE SENTENCE. PAROLE.