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text found in the original 12 volumes, without annotations, 
and it has been brought to January 1, 1923, by a one- 
volume supplement. Supplements keeping the material up 
to date are published in the Federal Reporter. 
d. Federal Statutes Annotated. The second edition contains in 
12 volumes all the acts of Congress of a general and perma- 
nent nature in force on January 1, 1916. Five annual 
supplements bring the work to January 1, 1923. Quar- 
terly pamphlet supplements keep the text up to date. All 
these publications contain by way of annotations much 
material characteristic of books of secondary authority. 
e. Barnes Federal Code. This contains the acts of Congress 
of a general and permanent nature in force December 31, 
1918, classified and arranged as in the Revised Statutes 
of the United States. A one-volume supplement brings it 
down fo January, 1923. 
4. Statutes of the several states. 
a. Session Laws. After the close of each legislative session in 
any state, the enactments of the legislature during that 
session, arranged chronologically, are published by the state 
or under its authority. They are commonly called session 
laws, but in some states they are otherwise designated. 
For example, in Connecticut they are usually referred to 
as Public Acts, in Florida as General Acts, in Wisconsin 
as Session Laws. 
b. Compilations, Consolidations, Revisions, Codes. At intervals 
in each state, the legislature provides for the rearrange- 
ment or restatement or both of all existing statutory enact- 
ments. In some instances the provision is merely for re- 
publishing the statutes in chronological order omitting re- 
pealed and obsolete enactments; in others it is for re- 
publication with arrangement according to subject-matter; 
in others for a rewriting and restating of the existing laws 
with needed amendments. In the last case the restatement 
is enacted by the legislature. In the others, the legis- 
lature usually merely authorizes the rearrangement of 
statutes then in force without alteration or amendment and 
makes the new publication only prima facie evidence of 
the law, as it exists in the previously enacted statutes. An 
example of the former is found in the Revised Laws of 
Minnesota, 1905; of the latter in the General Statutes of 
Minnesota, 1913. In some instances the restatement or 
revision of only a portion of the statutory law is provided 
for, as in the case of the New York Civil Practice Act, 
1919. 
5. Municipal Charters. 
Frequently, and formerly always, these were merely acts of the 
legislature. Often they are now so-called Home Rule Charters, adopted 
by vote of the electors of the municipality. 
