Excerpt from Supplement to the Codes and Statutes of the State of California, Vol. 3: Being a Compilation of the Amendments and Statutes of 1877-8 and 1880; Being a Supplement to "Hittell's Codes and Statutes" It may not be improper to refer to the important character of the laws passed since 1876, and particularly to those passed since the adoption of the new constitution in May, 1879. That instrument, which, with a very copious index. Is also here given, required a reformation of large portions of the Codes and the enactment of various new statutes, making material changes in our system and practice of government. What these changes are, in reference to any particular subject, can be easily seen by turning to the particular paragraph relating to it in the Codes oand Statutes. And then turning to the same paragraph in the Supplement. If the paragraph is not in the Supplement, it remains a portion of the law as published in the Codes and Statutes. Attention may here be called to the fact that. On account of the limited number of the State edition of the Amendments and Statutes of 1880, a separate edition of them, all in one volume, has been published by A. L. Bancroft Co. As it seems likely that the latter edition will be in large use, reference is made throughout this volume to its paging, as well as to the paging of the State edition, for all the amendments and statutes of 1880. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.