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Digest Ofthe Laps-Amongst the many important objects calculated to enlist the attention of the Le gislature of Alabama at the ensuing session, none will, in practical opeiation produce in our opinion more public benefit than act authorizing the com pilation ofa Digest of our Statutes. Any one at all acquainted with the subject, whose profession qulres familiarity with laws will readily under stand the necessity of such an act. The Digest as it at present exists, is extremely imperfect-nine years of legislation having essentially altered many laws and amended others. New ones have also been added, modifying or repeating former laws, as to leave it matter of difficulty to ascertain which in force at this day Such being the case, and inas- much as ignorance of the law excuses man for it's violation, and protects in the improper exer- else his rights, it is the duty of legislators to place them in form accessible to a and clothed in lan- guage adapted to the understandings of the great mas of the people. This is far from being the case with our laws in their present situation and the re- medy is loudly and daily called for. To ascertain what is the law at the present day, a man must ex- anime most volumlnous and unsatisfactory Digest, after which he will have to wade through the undi- gested and often conflicting pages of eight years le- glsation, contained in as many pamphlet acts. Law yers themselves often puzzled to ascertain upon the spur of the occasion what is what is not law: how then can the great body of the people expect to become conversan with their rights or the means of enforcing theml

 At the last session of the legislature this question was before that body, but no law was passed provi- ding for the compilation of the Digest. We do not recoect at this moment the cause which produced its

 ailure-but we suppose it is to be found in the fact that literally nothing was done by that honorable body which ought to have been done. The consti- tuition provides that Digest of the laws shall be compiled once overy ten years-the largest portion oi that period has elapsed sncethe publication of Toulmn's Digest in 1893. Wedo not see how the e- gisature dispense with the passage of such law at the approaching session. with due regard to the requirements of the constitution To delay it until another year, would be hazardng the welfare of the community still more, and productive of no good re- suit as far understand its effect. We hope the subject will meet with the attention ofthe legs. lature, and that the new Governor will recommend a timely enactment to carry into operation the intention of the ramers of our constitution -HnntsUiHe Ado.