Excerpt from Report of Commission to Arrange and Consolidate the Statutes: Made to the General Assembly at Its January Session, A. D. 1909 The undersigned were appointed a commission, under the authority of the Public Laws, Chapter 1363, passed at the January session, 1906, "to arrange and consolidate all the statutes of the State, general and permanent in their nature." We were ready to report at the January session of the General Assembly of 1908, but, it being understood that many acts of great importance were to be introduced at that session, it was deemed advisable to postpone the report until the present session of the General Assembly. The wisdom of this course is manifest from the fact that at the last session of the General Assembly many new laws were enacted and important changes made in existing laws. The Sales Act, the Warehousemen's Act, Insolvency Act, the Banking Law, the Pure Food Law, and the Automobile Act were passed at the last session of the General Assembly and are now incorporated in the present revision. More sweeping changes were made in the General Laws in the period between 1896 and 1909 than in any similar period in the history of the State. Since the General Laws of 1896 were enacted, amendments to the constitution required sweeping changes in the laws affecting elections and the organization of and procedure in the courts. In addition to these changes, many new statutes have been enacted. In the outline of the revision, the commission have followed, as far as possible, the general outline of the revision of 1896, and have adopted, wherever practicable, the same titles and the same arrangement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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