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63D CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. (REPT. 521,

Part 1.

REVISION OF LAWS JUDICIARY TITLE.

RD LIBRARY

APRIL 13, 1914.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union and ordered to be printed.

Mr. WATKINS, from the Committee on Revision of the Laws, submitted the following

REPORT.

[To accompany H. R. 15578.]

The Committee on Revision of the Laws, having had under consideration the bill (H. R. 15578) to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary, recommend that the bill do pass.

In the performance of its duties this committee has adhered to and followed the recommendations of the Commission to Revise and Codify the Laws created by act of Congress of June 4, 1897 (U. S. Stat. L., vol. 30, p. 58, ch. 2), and subsequent acts of March 3, 1899 (U. S. Stat. L., vol. 30, p. 1116); March 3, 1901 (31 Stat. L., p. 1181); and March 3, 1905 (33 Stat. L., p. 1285).

First, the committee has endeavored to bring together all statutes and parts of statutes relating to the same subjects.

Second, it has omitted redundant and obsolete enactments. Third, it has made such alterations as seemed necessary to reconcile the contradictions, supply the omissions, and amend the imperfections of the original text.

Fourth, it has proposed and embodied in the revision such changes in the substance of existing law as in its judgment were necessary and advisable.

In the performance of this work this committee presents the bill in such manner as to call the attention of Congress, without any independent research, both to existing law and to the changes made therein by the present bill. This is accomplished by a report supplementary to the bill, wherein the existing law will be found upon one page and on the page exactly opposite will be found the recommendations embodied in this bill, in which all new matter proposed is printed in italics, so that by a mere visual inspection of the report the House will have its attention directed to the fact as to whether there is any change proposed in the section and the nature and character of the change proposed, which will enable the House, by a

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