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Excerpt from Appendix to Journals of Senate and Assembly of the Twentieth Session of the Legislature of the State of California, 1874, Vol. 4 We found the four Codes - the Political Code, the Penal Code, the Civil Code, and the Code of Civil Procedure - as prepared by the Com missioners and enacted by the Legislature, perfect in their analysis, admirable in their order and arrangement, and furnishing a complete code of laws; the first time, we believe, that such a result has been achieved by any portion of the anglo-saxon or British races. It seems inexplicable that those peoples, who boast of being the most fully imbued with the sentiment of law, have left their laws in the most con fused condition, resting partly in tradition, but for the greater part scattered through thousands of volumes of books of statutes and reports, and thus practically inaccessible to the mass of the people. That Cali fornia has been the first of this class to enact a complete code of muni cipal law will add not only to the prosperity of her people, but redound to her honor as a State. If the work of the Commissioners needed revision, it was mostly owing to obstacles which neither their ability nor industry could overcome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.