PREFACE. This number completes volume 2 of the Supplement to the Revised Statutes. The unusual extent of legislation of a general and permanent character passed by the Fifty-sixth Congress is apparent in the following pages. The number preceding this, No. 8 of volume 2 of the Supplement to the Revised Statutes, containing the legislation of the Fifty-fifth Congress, had four hundred and ninety pages in the body of the work. The present number, No. 9, containing the legislation of the Fifty-sixth Congress, has seven hundred and seven pages. The index at the close of this number is a complete index to the whole of volume 2. The table of statutes repealed, altered, or affected by subsequent legislation at the beginning of this number embraces all general and permanent legislation since December 1, 1873, the date from which the Revised Statutes took effect. It is intended that the question whether any section of the Revised Statutes or subsequent permanent act included in the Supplement to the Revised Statutes has been affected by later legislation may be decided by a single reference to this table. A complete title page to volume 2 of the Supplement to the Revised Statutes is prefixed to this number, the purpose being to permit the binding together of all the pamphlets forming volume 2 into one volume, preceded by this title page and the table of statutes altered by subsequent legislation and followed by the index, both of which are found in this number. GEORGE A. KING, WASHINGTON, December 1, 1901. Editors. iii |