Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1859 — Publication of the Laws. [ARTICLE]

Publication of the Laws.

The Indiana American, alluding to the fact, that the laws of last winter have only just been destributed to the various counties, and went into force thereby on the 6th inst., thus remarks: ‘•lf the laws' had been published in the papers, as they should have been, every law would have been published three or four months ago, and would have been in the hands of every reading man at but little more expense than they now he in the office of th Clerks and others. The laws of the two sessions c.ont'awis about -100.000 ems. There is not a paper-in .the State that would not insert them at §‘loo, and glad to get that. There are about 100 papers in the State, making the cost of printing, distributing and all, about $15,000. - The present cost is at,, least half of that, and then the laws only reach a favored few. Only some 8,000 are published for 200,000 voters. Eet the book he published as other books are. on private account. I.et those who need them, buy them, but let the money of the million be devoted to giving the laws to the million.” must he classed among the neatest to sts of its class which has recently been ventilated. It was given at the late celebration in Ellington, Conn., as the thirteenth regular toast: “Women —the lover of union and annexation. Dike our country, her manifest destiny is to spread her skirts.” It was responded to bv nine cheers "and a fw)hoop!