The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-01-23
IS WORK OF MANY YEARS
New Volume Will Contain Every Sta
tute of the State and They Will be
Supplied to Attorneys and Others
Through Office of the Secretary.

| Wisconsin, the HrST TO De JTleQ by any
state, was consummated this week with
the issuance of the revised statutes of
the state. It comprises all the statutes
in force at the present time. An edl-
tion of 5000 copies, to be sold at So
each, will yield 100000, a sum more
than covering the total cost of the re-
visor s Office for the past three years.
The revision was the work of l.. j.
Nash Of Manitowoc and his assistant
Arthur F. Belitz of Madison.
The volume, containing 1900 pages,
is compilation of the laws hereto
fore contained in two volumes of the
statutes of 1898, one volume Of San
born s Supplement Of 1906, and eight
volumes Of session laws. Laid in q
row, these volumes made three-fold
shelf, all of which now is covered in
the one new volume brought down to
date. The advantage of the work to
lawyers and Legislators, through the
avoidance of all extraeous sections
is best appreciated by the legal pro-
fcssion, from whom has come an in
sistent demand for delivery of the vol
ume at the earliest possible moment.
The revised STATUTES contain approx
imately double the number of sec
tiors as did the statutes of 1898. The
latter contained about $500 pages, as
compared with $4,000 in the new book.
An entirely new index, covering about
500 pages, has been prepared. The
old index covered about 500 pages.
The peculiar advantage of the state
owned statutes lies in the fact that fu-
ture generations will reap the benefit
The linotype slugs are preserved, mad
|! as laws are repealed by successive
| legislatures and new statutes created,
the amended, repealed, or new laws
are reset, omitted, or added, as the
case may be. The volume will be re-
| published at the close of every legisla-
| ture, complied to date, so as to include
all the laws and amendments of the
session. Each edition will thus be
printed from new plates. The book
does not contain annotations Of court
| decisions; these will be, published lat
er in q separate volume.
At the end Of each section of the
statutes are printed notes in italics
giving reference to the acts of the
| legislature and prior revision from
which the subject matter of the Sec
ton is derived. The book contains
table giving reference under subject
| headings, alphabetically arranged, to
all special, local and private laws from
| the beginning of the territory in 1886
| and prior thereto. 1t includes also
references to all the Michigan territor-
ial laws affecting Wisconsin from 1905
to 1886. This table is preceded by an
exhaustive historical sketch of the
Wisconsin statutes, beginning with
the treaty of peace between France
andl England in 1854 down to the pre-
sent The introduction treats of the
growth of the body Of the statutes
from single enactments and traces the
classification back to its origin, namely
the revised statutes of 1929 of the
state of New York.
| With regard to annotations, the law
provides for the printing of a com
panion volume to be called the Wis
consin Annotations. This will not be
issued bienniallv, like the statutes, but
probably about once in ten years, and
will contain the constitutions of the
United States and Wisconsin, and ali
the annctations of court decisions for
the Wisconsin constitution and all the
Wisconsin statutes. It will also con-
tain the Magma Charta, the Declara-
| ton of Independence, and other doeu-
ments of similar character. This vol
ume will be. issued some time during
the current year.
geographically the volume is a
printer 5 work of art. Expert print
ers have called it the best job Of the
kind put on library shelves.
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