authorized the preparation of an official edition (L. 1909, ch. 458), under which statute the present edition was prepared by the board in conjunction with Robert C. Cumming, the head of the bill-drafting department of the legislature, and his assistants, Benton S. Rude, John M. Willson, James A. Bailey, Denton S. Robinson and George Leech.

The official edition, in accordance with the statute providing for its publication, contains the text of the Consolidated Laws with the amendments of nineteen hundred and nine incorporated, a statutory record of the Consolidated Laws and the index prepared under the supervision of the Superintendent of Education.

The statutory record shows the statutes treated as general in their operation by the board in the consolidation of the statutes and the statutes in terms affecting them; the statutes repealed by the enactment of the Consolidated Laws; the source of each section of the Consolidated Laws, and the disposition made of each section of the "General Laws" and each statute not previously contained in the "General Laws " incorporated in the Consolidated Laws.

All of the material has been brought down to the close of the session of nineteen hundred and nine, and where an amendatory section has been substituted for an original section the original section appears in a note or the change made by the amendment is explained in a note.

The statute authorizing the official edition provides that the edition shall be deemed a part of the session laws of nineteen hundred and nine and shall take the place of the publication by the state printer as session laws of the Consolidated Laws and shall not be again published as session laws except that the amendments thereto made after their adoption shall appear in the session laws as provided by law (L. 1909, chap. 458).

When the statute providing for the publication of the official edition was passed by the legislature it was expected that all of the laws reported by the board would be enacted and that the edition would be a complete compilation of all the general substantive statutes of the state. The Railroad Law and Public Service Commissions Law, however, as reported by the board and passed by the legislature, failed to receive the governor's approval, but in order that the legislative intention may be carried out as far as practicable and in order that the profession may be inconvenienced as little as possible by the failure to enact these two Consolidated Laws, the board has decided to include the existing Railroad Law and Public Service Commissions Law in their proper alphabetical order as they existed at the close of the session of nineteen hundred and nine, with such independent

general statutes relating to these subjects as were found in the session laws by the board in the consolidation of the general

statutes.

At the close of the session of nineteen hundred and nine the legislature adopted a resolution thanking the members of the board for their services in preparing the Consolidated Laws, and authorized the preparation of the official edition, with the completion of which, the work of the board, so far as the general substantive statutes are concerned, will close.

ADOLPH J. RODENBECK, Chairman.
WILLIAM B. HORNBLOWER,
JOHN G. MILBURN,

ADELBERT MOOT,

Board of Statutory Consolidation.

Dated, July 1, 1909.

List of Officers and Members of the Legislature.

1909.

NAMES AND RESIDENCES

OF THE GOVERNOR, LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, SENATORS AND MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY, THE PRESIDING OFFICERS AND CLERKS OF BOTH HOUSES OF THE LEGISLATURE of THE STATE OF NEW YORK at the TIME OF THE PASSAGE OF THE LAWS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.