The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-08

states and Qec'QeQ Tn tdVOr or PenHSyl-
 vanla. Connecticut acquiesced in the decision, surrendering the Jurisdiction
 which it had exercised during the war.
 The law constituting Westmoreland ~ county a probate district of Connecti-
 clut was adopted by the General As
 sembly in 1775. In the revisison of 17S4
 no reference was made to the district.
 The '96 Revision.
 In 1795 Chauncey Goodrich, Jonathan
 Brace and Enoch Perkins were ap- pointed on the revisison of the statutes
 of that time, the adoption of the United
 States Constitution six years prior to
 that date having necessitated import
 ant changes in the State laws. The
 work was dispatched with rapidity and
 at the fall session of the General As
 sembly it was reported and accepted
 The publication took place i'll lt9o'
 Chauncey Goodrich was a gradute or
 Yale College in the class of 1776. With
 John Trumbull and Noah Webster,
 the great Photographer he was on the
 committee which petitioned the Legls- lature in 1792 for the incorporation of
 the Hartford Bank. His colleague on
 the revision committee, MT. Perkins,
 was also one of the founders ot the
 Hartford Bank. MT. Goodrich served in
 both branches of the National Con
 gress. In 1872 he was elected mayor of
 Hartford. At the time of his death, Au- gust IS, 1915, he held the mayoralty and
 also the office of Lieutenant Governor.
 He was a member of the Hartford con
 vention in 1874. Jonathan Brace, the second member of the revision commit | tee, succeeded Mayor Goodrich. He graduated from Yale College in 1779 and
 was a member of Congress from 17SS to 1901, serving two terms in that body. He was a member the committee that called the first meeting of the stockholders of the Hartford Fire h. surance company. He was 8 man of | public spirit and his administration Of public affairs entitled him to high re- gard during the initial years of the century Enoch Perkins, the third member of the revislons committee, was also graduate of Yale, receiving his diploma in 17S1. He was class mate of Chancellor Kent of New York, and of Governor Israel Smith of Yer mont. He was one of the most useful and influential citizens in the commu- nifty. Mir, Perkins was an earnest friend of education and was for years one of the trustees of the Hopkins Grammar School. His certificate was essential in gaining admission to that institution. Mr. Perkins was also on the revision of 1908. The public and private acts were published together in the re- vision of 1796. This was the custom of the time. The distinction between pub lice and private legislation was not so important as it is at present. Not in fact until the revision of 1887 was a radical attempt made to separate private leg islation entirely from the general sta tutes. The revisers of 1887 undertook to eliminate all legislation of a private nature from the public laws.
 1907 CODIFICATION.
 In 1907, John Treadwell, Enoch Per kins and Thomas Day were appointed to prepare new edition of the statutes. The work was undertaken with great interest and intelligence, and was reported to the General As sembly in 1908. The distinction of a revision was not claimed for the work, but it was in all senses of the word an elaborate and scholarly codifcation John Treadwell became Governor of the State in 1909, the year after the qualification was adopted. He gradu- | ated from Yale College in 1767, and was a member of the Continental Congress in 1875. He took an influential part in organizing the School Fund and i was the president in his fast years of | the American Board of Foreign Mis- i cinnc cnbcpnJla,1ttV Cotton Smith also held this position, | making two Governors of the State | who have been at the head of the | American Board. Governor Treadwell l was a man of broad training and his professional career was of the highest l crder He was a native of Farming ton. Thomas Day was a graduate of Yale in the class of 1797. Lyman Beecher the noted theologian, and Governor Samuel A. Foote, were his t classmates. He became Secretary of State in 1910 and held the office for a quarter of a century. He was for fif- ty years Supreme Court reporter. He was the president of Wadsworth Atheneum from 1S42 until 1855, and was deeply interested in the social and life of the period in which ne lived His work on the revision of 1908 was of lasting importance.
 REVISION OF 1921.
 MT. Day was also member of the commission entrusted with the RevisioX if 1921. The revision of that year war lecessitated by the changes produced Il the jurisprudence of the State through the adoption of the State Con- titution in 1918. The members of the having the work in charge were Zephaniah Swift, Thomas Day md Lemuel Whitman. The three re- ,isers were graduates of Yale. Mr. Swift was classmate of Noah Webs, CT Governor Oliver Wolcott, and of oe Barlow, the poet and journalist, in 177S. Lemuel Whitman graduated in 1900. MT. Day. as already tated, was in the class of 1797. In 1891 l Ir. Swift became judge of the Su- reme Court, and was made Chief Just ce in 1906. The office of Chief Justice vas held by him until 1819 He was member of the Hartford Convention 1t the time the Revision of 1921 was egun, Judge Swift was man of ripe ttainments and judgment. His legal owers had been trained through years f service on the Supreme bench. He 'as member of Congress from 1793 till l97 and was made secretary to Oliver Ellsworth Minister to France, in 1900.