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1 Codification of Laws: June 3, 1924 1 (1924)

handle is hein.uscode/wsoc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Calendar No. 786 68TH CONGREss) SENATE REPORT 1st session ) 722 CODIFICATION OF LAWN- JUNE 3, 1924.-Ordered to be printed Mr. ERNST, from the Select Committee on Revision of the Laws, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. J. Res. 1411 The Select Committee on Revision of the Laws, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 12) to consolidate, codify, revise, and reenact the general and permanent laws of the United States in force Decem- ber 2, 1923, herewith submit the following report: H. R. 12 represents an enormous amount of painstaking work on the part of the House Committee on the Revision of the Laws under the leadership of Congressman Little. The effect of the bill, if it were to become law, would be to enact the 60 titles embraced in it and the supplements thereto as a substi- tute for all the general and permanent congressional legislation since 1878. The purpose of the law is to set forth in one volume this great body of statute law so that reference to and examination of the statutes and the Statutes at Large may not be necessary. The first 10,740 sections of the act are intended to embody the laws enacted down to and including March 4, 1919. A supplementary extension of these sections is appended, designed to embody the legislation down to and including December 3, 1923. The repeal clauses operate upon all acts of Congress passed prior to that date of which any portion is embraced in any section of the proposed act. This repeal is subject to a proviso (sec. 10742) to the effect that the incorporation of any general and permanent provision from an act not itself general or permanent shall not repeal or in anyway affect any of the matter in the act in question not included in the codifi- cation. From the foregoing statement it will be evident that this bill ought not to become law until every possible precaution has been taken to insure the accuracy of the work. Such examination as the committee has been able to make has satisfied us that the bill in the form in which it passed the House

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