Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-four,

BY DUTTON AND WENTWORTH,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts.

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THIS volume is composed of the Supplements to the Revised Statutes, heretofore published by the subscribers, together with certain additions, which, it is believed, will be found useful and convenient in connection with the laws.

I. This volume and the Revised Statutes, together, contain all the public laws in force; they are connected together by a table prefixed to this volume, with references from the several chapters and sections of the Revised Statutes to the laws since enacted by which the Revised Statutes have been added to, modified, or repealed. By means of this table it can be seen, at once, whether any particular provision of the Revised Statutes has been expressly made the subject of subsequent legislation.

II. The Constitution has been revised by striking out the annulled or obsolete portions of that instrument, and by inserting the amendments in their appropriate places. This revision is intended for the convenient use of those who desire to ascertain what the existing provisions of the Constitution are, without the trouble and labor of tracing them historically from the original instrument through all the various amendments. Those who wish to investigate any constitutional provision, in the manner last mentioned, will find the original instrument, together with the first eleven amendments, prefixed to the Revised Statutes, and the twelfth and