RESOLUTIONS. 1834

with the Governor and Council for the uses of any future —————
work of revision and digesting, and to be delivered for that
purpose to the director hereinafter mentioned.

Resolved, That the Governor and Council shall cause to
be paid such amount as they shall find to be fair and proper
for the printing, in regard to said revision and Digest here-
tofore done at the instance of Messrs. Buchanan and John-
son.

Resolved, That the acts of Assembly of this State, public
or of a general nature, now in force or hereafter before the
completion of the work to be executed, be revised, collated
and digested, under their appropriate titles: and that, for
that purpose the Governor and Council be and they are
hereby authorized and required to appoint a competent per-
son to act as the Director of the Digest, who shall divide
into such titles all the said Acts, and devise the form in
which the Digest shall be made, and report the same to the
Governor and Council; who shall thereupon appoint as
many persons as to them may seem most proper to ensure a
prompt accomplishment of the work, to whom separately
shall be assigned to be revised, collated, and digested, one or
more of said titles.

And each of said persons shall note the Acts or parts of
Acts omitted from the Digest, as having been repealed or
having expired or as being repugnant to the Constitution of
the United States or of this State, and shall make such sug-
gestions as to additional enactments and as to imperfections
of any kind, in the existing law of the titles committed to
him, as he may think proper.

And to one or more of said persons shall be assigned the
duty of compiling the Constitution of this State, with the
Bill of Rights, and also the Constitution of the United
States, with the alterations it shall have undergone since its
adoption, and it shall be the duty of one or more of said
persons, to make a list in chronological order, of the Acts
not public or of a general character, and not for the benefit
of particular individuals.

And the said persons shall report their lespective works
to the Director of the Digest, and shall examine and make
such corrections thereof, and additional suggestions
under the several titles, as to him may appear proper; And
the Director shall make a report to the General Assembly
of the whole work, so prepared by such persons, with an
Index to it, which he shall, make or cause to be made; pre-
senting in his paid Report all his views and every information
in his power, for facilitating the Assembly in their delibera-