The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-07-01
CODE COMMISSIONS REPORT
It Tells What the Commissioners,
Have Done, and What il Yet
to Be Done.

Code Commissioners Caminetti, Bulla
and Shanahan yesterday filed with
Governor Gage a partial report, show
ing the result of their labors up to the
present time. The report is as fol-
lows:
Office of the Commissioners for the
Revision and Reform of the Law. Sac
ramento, CAL, June =, 1899.
To Hon. Henry T. Gage, Governor of
California-Sir: We respectfully re-
port that we have this day filed with
the Hon. Charles F. Curry, Secretary Of
State, an additional partial report Of
the commission for the revision and
reform of the law, said report consist
ing of the Revised Political Code fully
| completed and ready for printing.
This volume was practically COM
pleted several months ago, and would
have been duly filed as required by law
had it not been for the inability of the
State Printing Office to print the same
during the late session of the Legis-
lature. Such being the fact, the Com
missioners deemed it advisable TO
withhold the filing thereof in order that
such statutes and amendments, adopted
at said Session, as properly belonged in
the Political Code might be incorpor-
ated therein.
This purpose involved the rearrange-
ment to some extent, and the rewriting
of very considerable portion Of the
work of revision already performed
This labor has now been performed,
and. the result is embodied in the re-
port herein referred to.
The remainder of the work Of codifi-
cation and revision is small compared
with that already accomplished In
deed. the work of carrying into the Pc
iitical Code the statutes passed since
the adoption of the codes, which stat
utes should have been originally en-
acted as part of the Political Code,
is far greater than that Of a similar
nature connected with all the other
codes combined. The laws re-
lating to municipal corporations,
comprising numerous and inn
portant statutes hitherto constitut-
ing an unintelligible tumble have been
codiied, and compose several hundred
pages of said report.
The Acts appertaining to state Off
GERS. Commissioners and public institu-
tons, which have been scattered
through many volumes Of our statute
law, have all been codified, and are in
corporated in the Political Code
The County Government Act, and
numerous other statutes relating to the
government of counties have also been
systenized, and inserted therein, this
of itself requiring great expenditure of
time and labor. He
large portion Of the Penal Code has
also been revised, and twas the hope
and intention of the commission that
it should have been entirely completed
and filed at this time, but prolonged
and fatal illness in the family of one Of
the Commissioners, preventing his at
tendance at the meeting of the commits
sion at which the work Of revision of
said code was to have been finally
passed upon, has rendered this inpos-
sible. ~ 1a
The revision of the Code of Civil Pro-
cedure alone remains. 1t is the inten-
ton and purpose Of The commission to
compile, also a volume to be designated
as the ''Uncodified Statutes TO be
composed of statutes special Or temper
airy in their nature, or otherwise not
proper to become part of either of
the codes.
A more detailed report, including a
description, of the methods pursued,
and the objects sought TO be attained
~ the commission will be subsequently,
filed when the entire work is COM
pleted