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of this new edition, well printed in a large o£tavo, have 

 been already published, and it is hoped that the work 

 will be completed in two or three years. Only those 

 who have had occasion to refer to the old and cumbrous 

 tomes in which A6ls of Parliament were formerly em- 

 bodied can appreciate the full benefit of this neat and 

 handy edition of the colle6ted and revised Statutes of 

 the Realm. It should be mentioned that the enaftments 

 are arranged in chronological order. 



Revision in the United States. 

 The Congress of the United States of America have 

 proceeded further in the path of statute law reform than 

 the Imperial Parliament. In 1866 an A61 was passed 

 providing for " the revision and consolidation of the 

 Statute Laws of the United States." Three lawyers 

 were appointed Commissioners for the purposes of the 

 A61, their duty being declared to be " to revise, simplify, 

 arrange, and consolidate all statutes of the United States, 

 general and permanent in their nature, which shall be in 

 force at the time such Commissioners may make the 

 final report of their doings." When the Revised Statutes 

 were settled by the Commissioners they were submitted 

 to Congress en bloc and passed, no douot with altera- 

 tions and amendments, at the Session held in 1873-74. 

 The work was published in 1874 under the authority of 

 an A61 passed in that year. In 1877 an A6t was passed 

 for the preparation by a single Commissioner of a new 

 edition of the Revised Statutes, and this edition was com- 

 pleted and published in 1878. It forms a large quarto 

 volume of 1,394 pages, The contents are arranged, ac- 

 cording to their subjeft matter, in 74 Titles, or principal 

 heads, and 5,601 Se6tions. The work is well and clearly 



