US/3578.1.134.5 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY 1863, April 30. (Class of 1815.) Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-four, BY DUTTON AND WENTWORTH, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. ADVERTISEMENT. THIS volume is composed of the Supplements to the Revised Statutes, heretofore published by the subscribers, together with certain additions, which, it is believed, will be found useful and convenient in connection with the laws. I. This volume and the Revised Statutes, together, contain all the public laws in force; they are connected together by a table prefixed to this volume, with references from the several chapters and sections of the Revised Statutes to the laws since enacted by which the Revised Statutes have been added to, modified, or repealed. By means of this table it can be seen, at once, whether any particular provision of the Revised Statutes has been expressly made the subject of subsequent legislation. II. The Constitution has been revised by striking out the annulled or obsolete portions of that instrument, and by inserting the amendments in their appropriate places. This revision is intended for the convenient use of those who desire to ascertain what the existing provisions of the Constitution are, without the trouble and labor of tracing them historically from the original instrument through all the various amendments. Those who wish to investigate any constitutional provision, in the manner last mentioned, will find the original instrument, together with the first eleven amendments, prefixed to the Revised Statutes, and the twelfth and thirteenth amendments in the present volume. This revision has been examined by JOHN G. PALFREY, Esq., Secretary of the Commonwealth, whose certificate to its correctness is appended to the instrument. III. The Appendix contains the apportionment of the Senate and House of Representatives, under the thirteenth amendment of the Constitution, and also sundry Resolves of a public nature, none of which have hitherto been published in any generally accessible form. IV. Instead of a separate index to each supplement, as heretofore published, a general index has been prepared to the whole, as nearly as may be on the plan of that of the Revised Statutes. DUTTON & WENTWORTH. Boston, Nov. 1, 1844. TABLE OF TABLE of the Chapters and Sections of the Revised Statutes, repealed, modi- fied or added to, by the several Acts and parts of Acts contained in this No......I. APPORTIONMENT of Senators and Representatives, under the |