.112 MARYLAND MANUAL.

Codes.

:I799 Digest ,of >tHe Laws of Maryland, 1637-1797. Ed. by Thomas
Hefty. 2 vols. 8° Baltimore and Washington, 1799-1804.
(First Codification, contains Constitution of 1776.)
1860 Maryland :Code. Ed. by Scott and McCullough. 2 vols. 8*

Baltimore, 1860.
Supplem.*«t. Ed. by E-O. Hinkley, Baltimore..................1862

" " " ..................1865

*' " Lewis Mayer, " ..................1865

" 1861-68 Ed. by Lewis Mayer, ..................1868

" ,(*8S8) " " " ..................1868

" 1(^70^ " Cohen and Rowland, ..................1870

-1878 Revised 'Code, -by Mayer, Fischer and Cross, Baltimore.... 1879

1888 Code Public General Laws, John P. Poe, 2 vols. Baltimore....1888

Code Public Local Laws, " " " " ....1888

Supplement. " " " ....1900

(New edition <Qf<Cpde in press.)

Session Laws.

The first regular issue of -session laws was begun in 1727, and at the
.session of that year an act was passed "for the encouragement of
William Parks, Printer/' by whom the "Compleat Body of Laws" was
printed. A volume in the State Library, once the property of Kdmund
Jennings, Secretary of the Province, contains seven of these early
issues of the Parks press, dated 3728 to 1737; and also fourteen consec-
utive issues from the press of Jonas Green, the successor of Parks.
These latter cover all the sessions from July, 1740 to 1752,. and it is
probable that this collection is .unique.

The Library has also a complete-collection of session laws from 1768
to date.

Besides the Statutes of the .Ger»eiral Assembly the Statutes of the
United States are authoritative in $be State, as are those of England
passed prior to July 4th, 1776, applicable to the Province and adopted
therein. A list of these latter, withsotes, is given in "Kilty's Report
of Statutes, Annapolis, 1811," and in "Alexander's British Statutes in
Force in Maryland, Baltimore, .1870,** the latter being elaborately an-
notated. These Statutes have been interpreted by the English and
Federal Courts as well as by those of Maryland.

Mep.orts.

The decisions of the 'Maryland Courts of last resort have been
printed in the following volumes:
Harris and McHenry, 4 vols.................................................1700-1779

Harris and Johnson, 7 vols...................................................1800-1826

Harris and Gill, 2 vols..........................................................1826-1829

Gill and Johnson, 12 vols.....................................................1829-1843

Gill, 9 vols........................................................................ 1843-1851

Bland's Chancery Reports, 3 vols.........................................1811-1832

Johnson's Chancery Reports, 4 vols.......................... ..„ .....1847-1854

Maryland Reports, vols. 1-94................................................1851-1902

The reports prior to ist Maryland, have been reprinted with anno-
tations under the editorship of Wm. T Brantly, and vols., 1-79 of the
Maryland Reports have been reprinted under the editorship of Wm.
H. Perkins, Jr.

The '-Maryland Law Review" -began, the publication of important
nisi prius decisions. in 1901.