Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-04-25

Section I. The governor is hereby di-
rected forthwith to appoint three COM
missioners to edit and superintend the
publication of the General Laws OF Yer
mont, together with the Declaration of
independence, the Articles Of Confedera-
ton, the Constitution Of the United
States, the Constitution of this state, and
the public acts of the present session of
the General Assembly Said commits
sioners shall prepare table of contents
and suitable head notes to the several
titles and chapters of the General Laws,
shall insert in the chapters suitable sub
heads, shall prefix to the several sections
suitable section titles, shall insert mar
ginal references IN connection with each
section showing its source and such
amendments as may have been made, and
referring by volume and page to all de-
cisions of the supreme court of this
state or of the United States relating
thereto,-such tables, head notes, sub
heads, section titles and marginal refer
ences to be of the same general character
as those contained in the Public Stat
utes of Vermont
Sec 2. Said commissioners may, sub
lect to the approval of the governor, and
to the extent authorized by him, insert,
IN the form of foot notes, a brief digest
of the leading and more important cases
decided by the supreme court of this
state, which construe, define or limit the
scope of any section of the General Laws,
or any word or phrase therein, after the
same general plan as that followed in
the General Statutes of Connecticut Re-
vision of 1902
Sec 3. Said commissioners shall, in
preparing the General Laws for publ
cation, strike out all sections or parts of
sections which are made up of sections
or parts of sections of the Public Stat
utes or session laws which are repealed
by the present session of the General
Assembly; and, if substitute sections
have been enacted, they shall be inserted
In the General Laws
Sec. 4 Said commissioners may, in
their discretion, insert in appropriate
places in the General Laws, in the form
of foot notes or otherwise, such cross
reference to such other titles, chapters
or sections of the General Laws as are
germane to any title, chapter or section
! Of the General Laws, and as will render
| the work more useful to the people of
the state.
| Sec. 5. Said commissioners may, in
their discretion, divide lengthy sections
of the General Laws into separate ones,
and shall reminder the sections of the
General Laws and change references
thereto in existing sections to CORE
spond to such REMEMBERED sections.
| They shall insert in the General Laws,
IN appropriate places, the public acts OF
the present General Assembly; and
when, in such acts, reference is made to
sections of the Public Statutes, or to sec
tons of the session laws heretofore en-
acted, they shall change such references
SO they will specify the sections of the
General Laws which replace the sections
or acts to which reference is made. They
shall revise, redraft, consolidate and ar
range, IN plain and simple language, the
public acts passed at the present session
of the General Assembly, upon the basis
plan and general form of the General
Laws as enacted; and as to such public
acts shall have authority to omit re-
dundant enactments, to reject super
fuous words and to correct circuitous
and ambiguous phraseology, SO as to give
clear, accurate and full expression Of
the will of the General Assembly, but
shall not make any change in substance
They shall also, if necessary, correct any
error IN the phraseology and omit any
obviously redundant expressions and en-
iactments in the General Laws, but they
shall not change the same IN substance.
Sec. g. Said commissioners shall In
c1ude in the General Laws tables show
ing the disposition of the sections of The
Public Statutes and subsequent public
form to the tables appended to the re
port of the commissioner appointed tt
revise the statutes, under No. 242 of tht
acts of 1915.
Sec. 7. Said commissioners shall re
wise, or cause to be revised, the indies
to the General Laws, as proposed, anc
shall insert therein proper references tt
the public acts of the present session O.
+bA General Assembly after fhe genera
manner and form of the index to tht
General Laws, as proposed, shall prepare
Ia suitable index to the Constitution o.
the United States and the Constitution
iof this state, and shall insert IN the gen
Ieral index to the General Laws propel
references to the Constitution of Thu
state, showing the chapter and article OF
section referred to, and giving the pag'
lof the work where the same NAV b,