organization involves an index to the books, chapters and articles relating to each subject of legislation and an annotated list on each of the more important topics.

Reference lists. Reference lists have been prepared from time to time on topics under discussion in the Legislature and annotated lists have been published on central control of police, municipal home rule and municipal ownership.

Index of New York documents. Card index of New York Senate and Assembly documents 1840 to date. The Senate and Assembly documents include the reports of state departments, institutions, special investigating commissions, and legislative committees. As there is no printed index of these documents more recent than 1888, this index is an almost indispensable aid to the use of the numerous valuable special reports contained in the documents. The index is an alphabetic subject list and contains about 9000 entries.

Index of state legislation. Minutely classified summary or index of the general laws of all the states since 1890. About 45,000 laws are included. It furnishes a comprehensive view of existing laws on many subjects and greatly facilitates comparative researches on almost every topic. In a state that has had no recent revision of its statutes the index often serves as a convenient supplement to the compiled statutes.

File of state legislation. Collection of the laws (beginning with 1903) included in the above index. The separate laws are placed in a vertical file, classified according to the same system as are the cards in the above card index.

Index to comparative treatises. Card index of books and articles treating comparatively the laws and administrative systems of cities, states and foreign countries. This index was begun in 1900 and now contains about 800 titles. While many comparative treatises are in existence, they are usually published as part of a public document or as a chapter of a book and, therefore, are not usually brought out in bibliographies and library catalogues. In undertaking any comparative investigation, the student desires

first to learn what comparative compilations or abstracts have already been published. The index has proved invaluable in directing members of the Legislature and others to helpful sources of information concerning the laws of other states.

File of pamphlets and articles. A collection of the most important pamphlets and articles bearing on problems of legisla tion, classified in a vertical file. It has only recently been started and as yet is restricted chiefly to comparative studies. When more fully developed it is expected that the file will prove a timesaving device of great value.

Correspondence. References from any of the card indexes are mailed on application subject to a fee (New York legislators and officers excepted) covering cost of copying whenever more than a page of copying is required.

Research. The division has undertaken numerous comparative summaries or tabulations of the laws of the various states at the request of members and committees of the Legislature. In 1901 when the New York corporation tax laws were under revision numerous comparative studies on this subject formed the basis of the bulletin on Taration of Corporations in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. At the request of the joint committee on educational unification, 1903, a comparative study was made of state school supervision.

Yearbook of legislation

As a contribution to better organization of material for comparative study of state government and laws three annual legislation bulletins are issued which are later bound together to form the Yearbook of Legislation.

The Digest of Governors Messages is a topical digest covering all the states and including related topics in the president's message.

The Summary and Index of Legislation is a minutely classified summary or index of new laws passed by all the states, including votes on constitutional amendments and decisions declaring statutes unconstitutional.

The Review of Legislation contains contributions from specialists in all parts of the country reviewing governors' recommendations and the laws enacted on each important subject.

The annual subscription price for the bulletins as issued or for the Yearbook is $1 payable in advance.

Press comments. An invaluable publication for every one who wishes to keep well informed on the legislation of the day. Review of Reviews

For the student of the social sciences, the most valuable report issued by any of our state governments. Journal of Political Economy

No greater amount of information of value to the lawyer, the jurist, the legislator, the politician, the statesman, the citizen, can be obtained anywhere in such convenient form and at so reasonable a price. Central Law Journal

A yearbook of great value to the lawyer or layman interested in the study of comparative legislation. Harvard Law Review

The volumes are great timesavers for any one who has occasion to study comparative legislation and post himself on special topics. Engineering News

This is altogether the most valuable summary which has ever been attempted concerning the legislation of the different states of the Union. It has come to be a vade mecum for any one who desires to become acquainted with what the Legislatures of the different states are doing. New Jersey Law Journal

Dans leur ensemble ces deux volumes forment un guide des plus précieux taut pour le législateur que pour celui qui veut étudier la législation comparée. Revue de droit public

INDEX

The superior figures tell the exact place on the page in ninths; e. g. 23
means page 2, beginning in the third ninth of the page, i. e. about one third
of the way down.