From 1897 to 1907 a commission was engaged in an effort to codify the great mass of accumulating legislation. More recently the task of codification was undertaken by the late Hon. Edward C. Little as chairman of the Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives, who labored indefatigably from 1919 to the day of his death, June 24, 1924. The volumes which represented the result of his labors were embodied in bills which passed the Hose of Representatives in three successive Congresses unanimously but failed of action in the Senate. Scrutiny of this Code is invited.
Constructive criticism is solicited.
It is the ambition of the Committee on the Revision of the Laws of the House of Representatives gradually to perfect the Code by correcting errors, eliminating obsolete matter, and restating the law with logical comleteness and with precision, brevity, and uniformity of expression. In case of any inconsistency arising through omission or otherwise between the provisions of any section of this Code and the corresponding portion of legislation heretofore enacted effect shall be given for all purposes whatsoever to such enactments. Provided, however, That whenever titles of such Code shall have been enacted into positive law the text thereof shall be legal evidence of the laws therein contained, in all the courts of the United States, the several States, and the Territories and insular possessions of the United States. See, now, Title 31, Money and Finance. 92 Stat. 2549.