Excerpt from Criticism Criticised: Intended as a Supplement to the Law Reporter for January, 1859

The readers of these sheets will not need to be informed that there is at this time before the Legislature of Massachusetts the Report of a Commission appointed to revise and consolidate the General Statutes of the Commonwealth.

The subject is one which has engaged the attention of the Legislature, and of the people, more or less, for the term of five years. A proposition for a revision was introduced into the Senate in 1854, and a report was made in favor of the measure by a joint committee of both Houses, but, as the members of the committee were not agreed upon the mode in which the work should be done, the subject was referred to a commission of three learned jurists, who unanimously recommended the appointment of commissioners to revise and consolidate the general statutes according to a plan set forth in the report, for which purpose they reported the form of a resolve.

The resolve was adopted by the Legislature of 1855, and commissioners were appointed. A partial appropriation towards the expenses of the work was made in 1857, and great impatience was manifested in the Legislature of 1858 because the commissioners had not performed an impossibility, by having their report in readiness at that time. It may fairly be inferred from these facts, that a revision of the statutes is desired by the people.

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