The San Francisco call., 1899-07-01
NEW CODE IN
PRINTERS HANDS
AnInteresting Report OF
Commissioners.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SACRAMENTO. June 30.-Code Com
missioners A. Caminetti, r. H. Bulla
and T. w. H. Shanahan to-day filed
their report with the Governor as fol-
lows:
"Ofice of the Commissioners for the
Revision and Reform of Law, Sac
ramento. Cal, June 80, 1899.
ITO Hon Henry T. Gage, Governor OF
California: We respectfully report
that we have this day filed with the
Hon. Charles F. Curry, Secretary OF
State an additional partial report OIL
the commission for the revision ana re-
form of law. said report consisting OF
the revised Political Code fully com
pleted and ready for printing
This volume was practically com
rleted several months ago, and would
have been duly filed as re-
uuired by law had 1t not
been for the inability of the state
Printing Office to print the samf dur
ing the late session of the Legislature
Such being the fact, the Commissioners
deemed 1t advisable to withhold the nj
ing thereof in order that such statutes
and amendments, adopted at SAID ses-
sion. as properly belonged IN the
Political Code. might be Incorporated
therein.
"This purpose involved the rear
rangement to some extent and the re-
writing of very considerable porloh
of the work of revision already per
formed The labor has now been nm
ished, and the result is embodied IN
the report herein referred to.
THE remainder of the work OF codlfl-
cation and revision is small compared
with that already accomplished. IN
deed, the work of carving into the
Political Code the statutes passed
since the adoption of the codes, which
statutes should have been originally
enacted as part of the Political
Code, is far greater than that or
similar nature connected with all the
other codes combined.
The laws relating to municipal cor
porations, comprising numerous ana
important statutes hitherto constituI-
ing an unintelligible tumble, have been
codified and compose several hundred
nages OF said report. The acts apper-
tanning to state officers, Commission
ers and public institutions, which nave
been scattered through many volumes
Of our statute law, have all been codl-
fed and are incorporated in the Politl-
cal Code.
.The county government act, and nu-
merOus other statutes relating to the
government of counties, have also peen
systemiZed and inserted therein, TINS
of itself requiring great expenditure OF
time and labor.
"A large portion of the Penal Code
has also been revised. and 1t was the
hope and intention of the commission
that it should have been entirely COM
pleted and filed at this time, but pro
IOneed and fatal illness in the family
of one of the Commissioners, which
prevented his attendance at the meet
ings of the commission at which the
work of revision of said code was to
have been finally passed upon, has rem
dered this impossible"
THE revision of the Code of Civil
Procedure alone remains. 1t is the in
tention and purpose of the commission
TO compile also a volume to be desig-
mated the 'uncodified statutes, to be
composed of statutes special or tempor-
ary in their nature or otherwise not
proper to become a part of either of the
codes.
"a more detailed report, including a
des cription of the methods pursued and
the objects sought to be attained by the
commission will be subsequently hled
when the entire work is completed