The Daily clarion., 1866-12-13
CHAP CXL.-AN ACT to provide for the
Revision and Consolidation of the Statute
Laws of the United States.

CHAP. CXL.-AN ACT to provide for the
Revision and Consolidation of the Statute
Laws of the United States
Be 1t enacted 6y the Senate and House Of Rep
resentatiUes of the United States Of America IN
Congress assembled, That the President of the
United States be, and he is hereby, author
lied, by and with the advice and consent of
the Senate, to appoint three persons, learned
in the law, as commissioners, to revise, slii-
plify, 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.
Sec. 2. And be 1t |nrther enacted, That i'll
performing this duty, the commissioners
shall bring together all statutes and parts of
statutes which, from similarity of subject,
ought to be brought together, emitting re
dundant or obsolete enactments, and max
ing such alterations may be necessary to
reconcile the contradictions, supply the
omissions and amend the imperfectiOnS of
the original text; and they shall arrange
the same under titles, chapters, and sections,
or other suitable divisions and subdivisions,
with head-nOteS briefly expressive OF the
matter contained in such divisions; also
with side-nOtes, so drawn as to point to the
contents of the text, and with references to
the original text from which each section is
compiled, and to the decisions of the federal
courts, explaining or expounding the same,
and also to such decisions of the State courts
as they may deem eXpedient and they
shall provide by temporary index, or other
eXpedient means, for an easy referenc to
every portion of their report,
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That
when the commissioners have completed the
revision and consolidation of the statutes,a ,as
aforesaid, they shall cause a copy of the
same, in print, to be submitted to Congress,
that the statutes so revised and consolidated
may be re-enacted, if Congress shall so de-
termine; and at the same time they shall
also suggest to Congress such contradictions,
omissions, and imperfectiOns as may appear
in the original text, with the mode in which
they have recOnciled, supplied, and amended
the same and they may also designate
such statutes or parts of statutes as in their
Judgment, ought to be repealed, with their
reasons for such repeal.
Sec. a. And be 1T further enacted, That the
commissioners shall be authorized to cause
their work to be printed in parts, so fast as
1t may be ready for the press and to distrib-
ute copies of the same to members of Con-
gress, and to such other persons, in limited
numbers as they may see fit, for the purpose
of obtaining their suggestions; and they
shall, from time to time, report to Congress
their progress and dOings.
Sec. .. And be 1t further enacted. That the
statutes so revised and consolidated shall be
to Congress as soon as practicable,
and the whole work closed without unneces-
sary delay
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the
commissioners shall each receive as cOmpen
satiOn for his services at the rate of five
thousand dollars a year for three years, with
the reasonable expenses of clerical service
and other incidental matters, not to exceed
two thousand dollars annually for such ex-
penses.
Approved, June 81, 1866.