Watches can be attached to the pocket in way that will defeat the sharpest pickpockets Especial watchful pess must be used while traveling 1 stroet cars or going Into crowds of any kind, whether at markets, theatres, churches or funerals, Every dwelling and store should be guarded by a burglar alars. This ingenious tell-tale bas never yet been cireuneented by burglars, Pistols should Le prepared and nse whenever a burglar enters on one's vreinises, Wheaever a thief, forger or other scoundrel is caught, he should not be let off, as is too often tho cage, to saw the trouble of attending his trial and securing his copviction. A united effort on tho part of the public willaoou teach most of these villains that the labor which grey &0 mueh despise might better be done outside than inside the State Prison. CAUTION. Neen. York Dec. 2, 1871. wr 1 A rr I Sehanriiela| Bteamboats and BATE the 5 nn PEVISING THE U. 8. STATUTES. REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS—PROGRESE oF THE REVISION. wl The Commissioners appointed te revise and consolidate the statutes of the United Btates, under the acta of 27th June, 1866, chapter 140, and 4th May, 1870, chapter 72, respectfully submit to your honorable body the following report: The Commissioners met in Wash ington in September, 1870, and began their work by a Joint examination of the whole body of the Statutes at Large, in order to classify every provision under ita ap propriate title, and to arrange the matter of revision in such a way that the reviser of cach title should be as sured of Lavine before him all provisions belonging to it, and none which did not. For this purpose the present Board of Commissioners adopted, with some modifica tions, the following provisional scheme of titles, acogpd ing to which the work had been carried on by their pre HORRK, LO RON Ay A a ew seed by, ai ing to which the work had been carried on by their pre decessors: SCRENP. 1. Genera) provisions. 4", Colts, Coinage, and Money. 2. The Leg sntive Peover. 41. Currency. 3. The Executive Power. 42. Legal Tender. Frovisious applicable to several 43. The custody and transfer of of the Executive Departments. Public Moners. 8. The Departmert of Nate. (44. Appropriations. The Departuwent of War. 45 Public DeMt. 9. The Ixpartment of the Treas 46. Public Contracts. ur. 47. Pablic Property. 8. The Attorner-General. '48. Public Privting. Advertivements, 9. The Pest-Office Department. and Public Documents. 10. The Department of the Navy. (49. The Postal Service, 11. The Department of the Interior. 50, Foreign Relations. 12. The Department of Agriculture. 51. Gereral provisions reearding 13. Tbe Department of Jusiice. Commerce and Navigation. 14. The Judiciary, 52. Regulation of Merchant Veasels 15 The Army, 1 in foreign commerce, 16. The Novy. 83. Regulation of Merchant Vessels 17 The M lita. in coasting and inland trade. 18. Arms, Armor es, and Areenals, 54. The Fisheries. 19. M btary Posts aud Fortibea- 55. Steamboats, tions. 56. Merchant Seamen, 20. Diplomatic and Consuler Offi 37. Captare and Prize. Pe 53. Light-houses, Joght-shipe, 21 Provisions applicable to several pry and Wrechivg Stas classes of HP re. tons 22. The Flag ard the Seal %0. The Coast Survey. 43. Tie Seat of Government (in. 60. Pensions and Bounty Lands, eleding the public bwldings). 61. The Public Health, #4. The States, 62. Hospitals, Asylwaons, snd Cee #5 The Terniories terih. ig! 26, Civil Eights 63, Patents end Copywrigi te 2; Citizenship. 164 Bankropter. 23. Tle Elective Frauclise [65. Nations Larks, 2, The Fre«dmen. t6, Rivers aud Harbors 30, The Incas fe. Railways 31. Imm graticp 168. Telegrapha. 3 a2. Natvrahzation, 69, Extradition (intervationsl sud 33. The Census State). 34. The Public Lards. Neutralite, 35, Duties upon lmports. {TL Fives, Peuaities, aud Ferfuit The eclleticu of Luport Dut'es ures and Reguliioz of lwports 72. Trentrection. aod kaj ort 33. Crnes TD rect Taxes {71 The Kinve Trade. 23. Int rad) Revenue, 95, Guano Ibanda, 30. Delt due by or to the United 76. Siihsonias lustitetion. States 70. It was of essential importance that every provision cf every general and permanent enactment ghould be as signed to its proper title, before the work of actnal re vision ghould be taken up. The misplacement of any provision might have the reviser of the title to which it actually belonged, in ignorance that some other provi gion before him, on the game subject, had been modified orrepealed. The Commissioners, sitting together from day to day, began with the most receut statutes; and proceeded thence to the earliest, examining them sec tion by section, determining as to cach whether it was of a geno ral and permanent nature, aud ghould therefore, be included in the revision, assigning every distinet pro vision of each gection to its title, and noting In the mar gin these assignments and all amendments and repeals, Ag the work advanced, the Commissioners found that it involved a considerable amount of preliminary study, and were more aud more convinced of the importance of a correct decigion, in each ease, at this stage of the work, on the chief means of avorling subsequent errors and omigsione, Tue whole process was, therefore, one over a second time, when changes in classification were Yoade Tle Commissioners believe thy 1100 work is sufficiently correct to afford a sale guido To lucuiscives, or to any Leh in the $T80ISR of revising any particular title, on process vecupied about tive mouths of coutinuous aor, The entries made by the Commissionera upon the mareine of their volumes of Statutes at Large were transferred upon alternate paces of two additional copies, by clerhs employed jor (hat purpose. Every pro vision marked for revision has been separate Iv pasted on a leat of writing paper, upon which 18 written a memorandum, statin the date of cnactment, the chapter and section {rom which it wae taken, the volawe and page of the Statutes at Large where it way be found, and 1 note of any statute amending or partially repealing it. The lorce niiss of papers this arising has been as sorted to the titles in the proposed revision to which they belong, aud they have been nnmbered ihroachout, and put up in convenient portfolios. Tho Coinruissioners Lave thus provided against any interruption of the work by a vacancy in the office of anv mcwber of the Board. Ii this process the Comnissioners examined and de termined upon the natere of over 23.650 sections, a large number of wich contain several distinet provisions, be longing to dee tinct titles, After Sepeiuiing frow these all provisions Wiuch had been repea ed, all which were not of a general aud permanent nature, acd those which had been revised by the former Board, the Commissioners found that tue number of provisious to be revised by them some what ex oeeded 9,000. Bone auxiliary labor has ocen performed which may be useful in the exceuion of the work. A tolerably complete list of adjudications of the national courts, filustrating the construction or operation of acts of Cou gress, bas been prepared, ulider a chironolegical arrange went, which will euuble the reviser of a parucuiar statute to ascertain readily whether it has been construed by the courts. A considerable number of leading cares oh the weanings of ters expioyed in statutes have been indexed, as a guard against inadvertent changes in the phrascowogy of Lows contrary to the course of judicial decifon. Duplicates of some of the more fruportant writinge of the Comtuissiouers Lave been prepared, as a Security against loss by ore. The Cowntnis-ioucrs have, in the processes stated, ac complished an equal and considerable progress upon every one of the 76 titles under which they have ar Taliged Lae statutes. In accordance with the act of June 97, 1866, which governs their proceedings, taey have printed and distriouted, for criticism by persons ac quunted with the respective subjects, the following Ullen No. 1. General provi