The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-26
COMPILED LAWS
COMPLETE WORK
Utah Legal Compilation Is Is
sued by Shelton Publish
ing Company.
THOROUGHLY ANNOTATED
PUBLISHERS EXPLAIN DELAY IN
GETTING BOOK OUT.
THOROUGHLY ANNOTATED

The first copies of the Compiled
Laws of Utah, 1907" were issued yes
terday by the Shelton Publishing COM
pany. The book is handsomely bound
IN calf and contains 1857 pages. 1t
contains, besides a compilation of all
the laws passed by the state legisla-
ture, the constitution of the United
States, the constitution of the state of
Utah, the enabling act and the nat
uraltzation laws. all thoroughly ammo
tated and indeXed.
This is the second revision of the
state laws, the first being known as
the revised statutes if 1898. Since that
time a great mass of legislation has
been enacted. and the previous work
was far from complete, necesSitating
constant reference to the session laws
of the various legislatures since that
time. For this reason the last legis-
lature passed a bill creating a COM
mission of two to revise and compile
the laws Of The state, and Governor
Cutler named James T. Hammond,
former secretary of state. and Grant
H. Smith for this work.
Book Is a Model.
That they have done their work well
is attested by the completeness Of the
book, which is generally considered a
model of its kind and the equal, If not
the superior, of any similar compila-
ton ever attempted in the country.
In arrangement and style of print
ing the book follows closely the re-
vised statutes of 1908. All the old sec
ton numbers have been retained as
far as possible with the exception of
those sections repealed, and new leg
islation since 1898 has been inserted in
appropriate places under subsection
numbers indicated by the letter X.
The commissioners had no power to
revise, their authority being confined
TO the correction of references, typo
graphical errors and obvious errors in
grammar and punctuation.
A feature of the work is the very
complete annexation, which involved
the most exacting labor from the COM
missioners. In this respect the book
is remarkable, and attorneys and
Judges all are unanimous in their
praise, as it increases the usefulness
materially.
There are also a large number of
cross references from one section to
another, which makes the book par
ticularly useful to those who are not
familiar with the statutes.
The price of the work is $3.50, which
is remarkable for its cheapness, con-
sidering the size of the book and the
labor involved in completing it.
Printing company's Statement.
The following statement was issued
yesterday by the Shelton Publishing
company, which printed 1t:
THE work has been impeded, and
the delivery of the book corresponding
" delayed, by means which it is par
ticulously DESTROYS you should know
something concerning. At the begin
ming there was more or less miSunder-
standing as to style of Typography, ar
rangement and classification Of mat
ter, etc, and this condition extended
well into the time limit placed upon the
work. so that for some weeks, while no
idleness obtained in any department,
no practical progress was made. with
this condition of things adjusted. other
difficulties appeared and continued. In
their determination to have every up
tO-date feature in the way of reference
and annexation at all available-these
of themselves constantly coming into
new being and relationship, thus neces-
stating constant changes and substi-
tution-the code commissioners at
times returned proofs to the printers
which amounted practically TO a reset
ting of the matter, such occasions oc-
curing so frequently as to amount to
the rule and accounting for much of
the extra time required in the produc-
ton of the book. This is not said COM
plainingly, or as a means of evading
Just responsibility. The outcome is
such as to make the delays and embar-
easements appear as beneficial, if not
prOvidential happenings, The extended
time having widened the scope of the
compilers' and the publishers activi-
ties, and enabling one and all to act
with the inevitable preSsures and con-
straints so greatly relaxed that they
have scarcely interfered at all. 1t may
be said to be a case of the end justify
ing the means, the means being a book
of which we have reason to believe the
public at large. and particularly those
who have occasion 10 use IL frequently,
will find no fault.
"In the production Of the compiled
laws the publishers have brought into
requisition the very latest and most
highly improved mechanism. The
smaller text is the work of the mono
type, the only one of its kind in use
here, by means of which an evenness
and regularity of Typography is OBJ
tanned such as must speak for itself
even TO those who are experts in such
matters. The linotype, which produced