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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 8

Digest

Digest.

I have heretofore suggested that the Grand Lodge now needs an entire new Digest of its laws. We ought to have a work that will present, in a compact and connected form, an entire Digest of our laws as they now exist. This should appear in a single volume, free from extraneous, repealed, modified, or obsolete subjects interpolated with the text, presenting the law as it is, distinctively and authoritatively. Instead of such a reliable system of jurisprudence, we have in the present Digest and Supplement a mass of repealed and modified law, made so by the necessity of continuously progressive legislation during many years, by which the Digest is loaded down, and the research for the correct law is often rendered as tedious and difficult as is the separation of wheat from the chaff. The Grand Cor. and Bee. Secretary accordingly recommends the preparation of a new and appropriate Digest. The present work is condemned for no special fault. It has done good service in its day, and only now is required to give way to a better work, by reason of the circumstances of its position. The legislation has outgrown the situation, and can only be adequately adapted to the altered exigency by the publication of an entire new work. At the last session this subject was referred to the Committee on Printing Supplies, who will present their views, and I respectfully suggest that a special committee be appointed to report at this session a plan for a new Digest or Code of existing laws.