¹ The writer has received information indirectly to the effect that Louisiana is at present installing, or is about to install, a legislative reference service, but direct inquiry has failed to elicit any response from the State Library at Baton Rouge.

² Report of the State Librarian of Connecticut, 1920, p. 23.

³ See, for instance, Illinois Legislative Reference Bureau, Final Synopsis and Digest, No. 22, 1923 Google Scholar.

⁴ National Association of State Librarians, Proceedings, 1922, p. 22 Google Scholar.

⁵ Pennsylvania Laws, 1923, ch. 119, sec. 7.

⁶ Indiana Laws, 1925, ch. 58, sec. 17, p. 195.

⁷ Witte, E. E., “Governmental Agencies for the Improvement of Statute Law in Wisconsin,” Kappa Beta Pi Quarterly, VIII, 55 Google Scholar.

⁸ Massachusetts Laws, 1920, ch. 640.

⁹ Illinois Laws, 1919, p. 63, sec. 1.

¹⁰ Indiana Laws, 1925, ch. 68.

¹¹ Pennsylvania Laws, 1923, ch. 119.

¹² Michigan Laws, 1921, ch. 71.

¹³ Oregon Laws, 1919, ch. 167, sec. 2.

¹⁴ North Dakota Laws, 1919, ch. 211, sec. 1.

¹⁵ California Laws, 1913, ch. 322, sec. 1.

¹⁶ California Laws, 1917, ch. 727, sec. 1.

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¹⁸ Special Libraries, VIII, 72 Google Scholar; Journal of the American Bar Association, III, 465 Google Scholar.

¹⁹ Report of the Librarian of Congress, 1920, p. 102; also House Document No. 968, 65th Congress, 2nd Session.

²⁰ Charles W. Bryan, Supplementary Budget Message, Nebraska, January 18, 1923, p. 14.

²¹ S. 8335, 62nd Congress, 1st Session; see Senate Report No. 1271, pp. 9–10, 62nd Congress, 3rd Session.

²² Lapp, John A., in Annals of the American Academy, LXIV, 181 Google Scholar.

²³ Since this article was written a change of considerable importance has been reported from Rhode Island. A law passed this year (Rhode Island Laws, 1926, ch. 790) provides for the appointment of a state law revision commissioner by the governor and the senate, to hold office for a term of four years. His main functions are to consolidate and arrange in code form the statute laws of the state; to append thereto notes and supreme court decisions bearing on the laws; to prepare, draft, and redraft bills on the written request of the governor, the speaker of the house of representatives, the presiding officer of the senate, or chairmen of the standing legislative committees. His work is to be clerical only, and he will exercise no influence on the subject matter of legislation. Such work of this nature as has been done heretofore has been the function of the legislative reference division of the State Library, and it is therefore to be expected that the new commissioner and the Library will work in close coöperation. The outsider may well wonder whether any one man will be able successfully to discharge such an array of functions. A fairly liberal salary ($6,000 per annum) is provided, but the allowance for office assistance and expenses is only $1,800. The idea was probably taken from the Massachusetts experiment mentioned above.