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1t is hereby enacted by the General

| Section I. The governor is hereby d.
rected forthwith to appoint three COM
missioners to edit and srperintend 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
sioncrs 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
thercto,-such tables, head notes, sub
heads, section titles and marginal refer
cnces to be of the same general character
as those contained in the Public Stat
utcs of Vermont.
Sec. 2. Said commissioners may sub
jcet 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 tho
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
utcs or session laws which are repealed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 i'll 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 arc
germanc 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 i'll 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. III 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 sucl, public
acts shall have authority to omit re-
dundant enactments, to reject super
fluous words and to correct circuitous
and ambiguous phrascoogy, so as to give
a 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-
actments iii the General Laws, but they
shall not change the same in substance.
Sec 6. Said commissioners shall in
clude in the General Laws tables show
ing the disposition of the sections of the
Public Statutes and subsequent public
acts of the General Assembly, similar in
form to the tables appended to the re-
port of the commissioner appointed to
revise the statutes, under No. 242 of the
acts of 1915.
Sec. 7. Said commissioners shall re-
wise, or cause to be revised, the index
to the General Laws, as proposed, and
| shall insert therein proper references to
. the public acts of the present session Of
. the General Assembly. after the general
. manner and form of the index to the
i, General Laws, as proposed, shall prepare
| suitable index to the Constitution Of
: the United States and the Constitution
of this state, and shall insert in the gen.
eral index to the General Laws proper
references to the Constitution of this
state, showing the chapter and article OF
5 section referred to, and giving the page
of the work where the same may BIZ
found
Sec. 8. Said commissioners may EN-
, ploy such clerical and stenographic as
{ sistance as may be required to enable
;. them cxpeditiously and accurately tc
S perform the duties devolved upon then
e by this act and shall fix the compensa
. ton of such employees; but they shall
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