. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. the re-arrangement of the table of con-tents, and to the It was in substance to be a compilation, ratherthan a revision of the existing laws. The secretary was empowered to employ,experts in compiling and digesting, and other help deemed necessary to facilitatethe work of publishing, and selected Reuben N. Stevens, a lawyer of Bismarck,Marshal H. Jewel, editor of the Bismarck Tribune, assisted by John G. Hamilton,of Grand Forks, to compile, codify and publish the edition of 1899. This editionbeing in turn e:^hausted
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. the re-arrangement of the table of con-tents, and to the It was in substance to be a compilation, ratherthan a revision of the existing laws. The secretary was empowered to employ,experts in compiling and digesting, and other help deemed necessary to facilitatethe work of publishing, and selected Reuben N. Stevens, a lawyer of Bismarck,Marshal H. Jewel, editor of the Bismarck Tribune, assisted by John G. Hamilton,of Grand Forks, to compile, codify and publish the edition of 1899. This editionbeing in turn e:^hausted, the Ninth Legislative Session in 1905 authorized an-other codification to be known as the Revised Codes of 1905. This was to beprepared under the general supervision of the governor, Elmore Y. Sarles, andsecretary of state, Edward F. Porter, and in its general arrangement was tofollow the compilation of the 1899 code, with the additional feature that itshould contain annotations of the decisions of the Supreme courts of the Terri- 1^ § I SI ^ OOCQ oo a 12!. HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 443 tory of Dakota, and the states of North and South Dakota, arranged by appro-priate reference to sections construed or applied by these courts. All the decisionscontained in the Territorial Reports and thirteen volumes of the North DakotaReports, and seventeen volumes of the South Dakota Reports are annotatedand incorporated in the compilation of 1905. The contract for the codification,annotation and publication of this compilation was awarded to Marshal II. Jewel,of Bismarck, who associated with himself Reuben N. Stevens, a lawyer ofBismarck, John G. Hamilton, a lawyer of Grand Forks, and Robert D. Hoskins,of Bismarck, then and for many years clerk of the Supreme Court of NorthDakota. COMPILED LAWS OF I913 The period intervening- between the publication of the Revision of 1905 andthe Legislative Session of 1913, was prolific of statutes covering the subjects ofirrigation, water rights, primary
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