Year: 1862

from us passage.


Approved, December 2, 1862.


No. Am Act to provide for the pub


LEGATION Of the General Statutes.


1t is hereby enacted, &c.


Sec /. The Reporter of the Deci-
sions of the Supreme Court is hereby
appointed Commissioner 10 edit and su-
perintend the publication of the General
Statutes Of the State of Vermont, to-
gether with the State Constitution and
the Constitution of the United States,
and the Public Acts Of the present ses-
sion of the Legislature, and also to pre-
pare suitable head-notes to the several
sections with marginal references to pre-
vious legislation as revised and combined
in the several Statutes and to the De-
cisions of the Supreme Court constituting
such Statutes and to prepare an exact
and copious index to the whole.


Sec. .. When the work shall have
been completed ready for publication,
said Commissioner shall prepare an ex-
act copy of the same for the use of the
printer, and in preparing the same he
shall omit TO insert the enactipg clause
at the commencement of each chapter,
except Chapter first of the General Stat
utes, but next previous TO the General
Statutes, he shall insert the act of this
session; enacting the said General Stat
utes. If said commissioner in preparing
such copy shall discover any obvious err
rors, either by omission Of words. or by
erroneous reference to chapters or Sec
tions, he may suggest the error in .brack-
cts.


Sec. 8. The said Commissioner shall
advertise in such newspapers published
in the State and the cities of New York
and Boston as he may select for the pub
ltca,ion of the several matters aforesaid,
in one volume, agreeably to TO the copy
mentioned in the preceding section, and
shall set forth in such advertisement the
quality and amount Of work required,
and such proposals may be directed to
said Commissioner, and as soon there
after as may be, the Governor, Secre-
sary of State and said Commissioner
shall award the contract for such publi-
cation either TO any bidder therefor, or
to any other person who may offer terms
deemed most advantageous to the State
And the said volume shall be substantial
ly in the manner and style of execution
like the General Statutes of Massachu-
sets, and shall retain the copyright for
the use of the State hereafter. Ii In
such contract it shall be provided for the
printing of the same on stereotype, pro-
vision shall also be made that the stereo-
type plates shall also be the property OF
the State to oe retained for future use.


Sec. 4. When the printing of the Cen
eral Statutes shall have been completed,
the said commissioner and the Secretary
of State shall examine and compare
them with the original acts, and shall
certify that the same have been examin-
ed and compared with the original acts
and that the same are true and correct
cepies of the General Statutes OF the
State of Vermont, as passed and remain
ing in the office of the Secretary OF
State, and shall deposit a copy SO certI-
ed in such Secretary's office, which shall
be conclusive evidence of such statutes.


Sec. 5. The certificate of such COM
missioner ana Secretary, provided for IN
the preceding section, shall be printed in
each copy of the General Statutes, and
every copy so printed containing such
certificate, may be used in. evidence.


Sec. 6. The contract referred to in
section three, shall provide for the pub
fishing of such number as they shall