Office of the Secretary of State: Records of the Joint Special Committee on the Consolidating and Arranging of the Public Statutes
Records of the Joint Special Committee on the Consolidating and Arranging of the Public Statutes, 1901.
Call no.: SC1/2051X
Scope and Content: Per resolves 1896, c 87, the governor appointed commissioners to consolidate and arrange the Public statutes of the Commonwealth, collecting those relating to the same subject matter under appropriate titles and chapters, on the plan of the code then in force. A joint committee of the General Court was appointed by order of Feb. 26, 1901 to review and amend the report of the commissioners. The resulting codification known as the Revised laws was enacted on Nov. 21, 1901 (effective Jan. 1, 1902) and printed with federal and state constitutions per a resolve of Nov. 21, 1901. Series was created to record deliberations of the special joint committee.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Subcommittee reports; (2) Journal; arranged by chapter no. –arranged chronologically
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