The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-02-17
,. COMPILED LAWS OF ARIZONA

We kaye tefsyrx as A Asple-s1idiy F tinted si11 xeU bourd so,uae 0f GZ1 pages os2rlng ar,,u il. title. 4 The CozP.led Laws 0f 'le Te-ri,orr of Arizoas. iBesrsIng the nOTeh Code. and ;he Scs.lc 1zws from ls14 10 1871. inclusive; 10 which is preExed the Con s,i.utisn of the United States, ard The or- -anic Acts OE the TerritoEies of AFTZona and New MexSco;- the whole oOnFsled oE Cole Ra.hfo-d. Secretary of the TesTl1ory. and rrfn,ed ar the exPense of the TeiitoTy, by .n,hoyitF of =n a-t o( its Legislatare, aFFEOE- e5 Fet,rrs-v Is. 1871. at 2 oosr, we presume, of tLi-tv-fire hundred dollars, the full amouus of the appropriation male by he Legislature of I57l for the purpose
 h the preface the compiler ssys:
 The sixty one chapters of the Howell Code excepting those that hav@ been repeal- a1 kaye I.-eu retained. and all acts relating .a the same subject matter have been ln>cTt ed after each chapter, respectively h some rz.4, this has been found iEnpracticable with onr unnecessary repetition, 4s several chap ,e-s have been amended m the same sct- . New chapters have also been added
 Where aa act has been passed, relating to the subject of an existing statute, wIthou. repezling It. except where 1t Is inconsistent
 with its provisions, both statutes have been. when deemed necessary. inserted in full that each person might be able 10 judge for him self what part was repealed, and how much of the pre-exIstJng statute was stll m force. No other course seemed safe. IL being no par . of the duty of the compile. to nuiilate sec tions CT pass upon legal constructions. It has been the intention of the compiler to insert in this volume every statute any ! part Of which may be in force in the Terri tory, and to leave out all statutes that have been clearly or directly repealed. and all statutes that are clearly local and private ID tteir nature. or that have been passed for a temporary purpose.
 The title of all acts, from 1861 to 1871, in- elusive. not printed herein, will be found in an appendix 10 this volume
 Whenever a section has been repealed d. rectlv. 1t has been so stated Tn the place ot the section with the year when 1t was done and wheI1 & section has been repealed bv sub stitute. t5e substitute has been inserted in the place of the original section with the year when the law was passed, and the act itself printed in full al tue end of the chap ter, that the title and repaling clause night be readily examined.
 The number of each section of the How ell Code and Session Laws remain un- changed.
 Besides the aforementioned sum of money one thousand dOllars were appropriated to pay the Secretary for the work of compiling and experimenting the printing and distri- button of five hundred volumes of the work. We see too by an item in the official paper that the Journals and Acts of the Legislature of 1871 had been received at the office of the ! Secretary, Tucson.
 There seems to be a general cry among our citizens for copies of t's 'ass, and We hope that every fax payer will be provided wisE them
 Having been tbg ar.t perSan in tho fFessic tory to demand q compilation Of the laws. in one volume, we do not now propose to crum . ble at tde cost, yet we do think the Federal l Government should have footed the bills. ] Again, the work of printing and binding could have been done in this Territory nearly ] if not quite as well, as at Albany, N. |.