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

the second reprint of the 1921 revision
 the first having been issued in 1924
 In 1886 an act was passed elucidatine
 the legislative order of 1885, particular | ly with regard to Private Acts. Under
 the two orders, that of 1885 and it's eluci
 dation the next year, the Private Acts
 were published separately. The com
 mittee were compelled to examine the
 legislation for forty-seven years in ex-
 ecuting the work assigned by the legis-
 lative orders. The edition of the Gen.
 eral Statutes published in 1885 was the
 first to contain references to judicial decisions. The edition of 1888 continued this practice
 1S49 REVISION.
 From 1921 there was no revision or dered in the general understanding of that term until 1S47. The work of the committee of 1885 had in 1t the char acteristics of revision, the changes from old methods and the separation of Public and Private Acts being of notable importance. In 1S47 Henry Dutton, who became Gov ernor of the State in 1854, Loren P. | Waldo and Francis F'ellowes were ap- | pointed a committee to prepare new edition of the General Statutes. The work of the committee was adopted by | the Legislature of 1S48, and is known as the Revision of 1S49. MT. Fellowes of the commission was prominent Hartford lawyer and classical scholar | He was born in Montville and came to | Hartford not far from 1888. A compi- | lation of the statutes was authorized | in 1854. Governor Henry Dutton, Oli- yer H. Perry, John Durham, Henry | Peck, Henry B. Harrison, who was af- rewards Governor of the State, and J. Hammond Trumbull were the commit tee entrusted with the project. The compilation was clear and concise. The committee in fact dsclaimed that they were legally authorized to perform the work of revisers.
 REVISION IN 1866.
 It was not until the May session of the Legislature in 1864 that q new re- vison was ordered Ex-Governor Dut- ton and Loren F. Waldo, who had served on the revision of 1S49 were re- appointed and David B. Both was the
 
 ceptional ability for tile work in hand. Judge Dutton was a graduate of Yale in the class of ISIS and became the professor of law in the institution. He published the Digest of Conneci- cut reports and the last years of his life were spent on the Supreme Court bench. He was succeeded in that po- sition by Judge Elisha Carpenter Judge Waldo was member of the Thirty-frst Congress, being elected from the First District in this State in April 1S49. He was the School Fun Com missioner in 1S52 and was appointed Commissioner of Pensions by President Franklin Pierce. In 1855 he was elect ed judge of the Superior Court. The last years of this distinguished law yer were spent in this city at the head of the law firm of Waldo, Hubbard X Hyde. David B. Booth was member ther of Ex-Major William Waldo Hyde David B. Both was a member of the Legislature which ordered the revision, being one of the Representa- tives from Danbury. In the Senate were Daniel Chadwick who afterwards became United States District Attorney. Edward J. Sandford, subsequently, a judge of the Superior Court in the State, and Edward L. Gun dall, who was on the Revis- ion of 1887 The Hon. Lynde Harrison of New Haven, then only 26 years of age, and back from the Civil War, was the Senate clerk. The year after he was elected to the Senate and took a foremost part in the work of the session. He made the ablest | speech in the Senate concerning the | death of President Lincoln and was ac- lively identified with the proceedings l relating to the report of the revisers the House was the Hon. Charles Chapman, of this city. The Hon. Ezra Hall brother of Miss Mary Hall of the State Board of Charities and George | H. Watrous, who afterwards was pres ident of the New York, New Haven and Hartford road. The work of the revisers appointed in 1864 was report ed to the Legislature in 1865. The Hon, Lynde Harrison was in the Sen ate and the Hon. John T. Wait, who died in Norwich a few months ago, 1 was the Senate chairman of the jul dietary committed Governor Henry B. Harrison was in the House. The com mittee from that body on the revision was composed of Francis Chamberlin of Hartford George N Woodruff of H. B. Munson of Seymour, David Gallup of Plainfield and Fred arick J. Fingsbury of Waterbury. It was adopted by the General Assembly after a searching examination and -ook it's place in history as the Revision ,f 1866.
 1874 REVISION.
 The Legislature of 1872 appointed a committee on new revision. The were David B. Booth, who vas on the revision of 1866, George c. Woodruff of Litchfield, John P. c. : Mather of New London, Simeon E. Baldwin, now of the Supreme Court, md John s. Turrill. The revision vas the first in which head notes, giv- nIg the subject of each section, were ,refixed to the different chapters. The eferences to judicial decisions were continued. Several important changes were made, particularly with regard