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EDITORS' PREFACE
of the repealed sections. The Compiled Code numbers and the former catchwords
of the sections are carried with notes indicating the new Supplement
numbers under which the substitute may be found.
Every new number in the Supplement is a hyphenated number. For
example: "241-al, 241-a2, 241-a3". This system has been found applicable
to every situation in which it was found necessary to introduce new
numbers, and it is uniform throughout the Supplement.
A few sections of the Compiled Code have been relocated. These new
arrangements have been made either on account of some drastic change by
the Thirty-ninth General Assembly in the character of the former sections,
making their location in the Compiled Code illogical, or on account of the
sections being originally misplaced in the Compiled Code. In every instance
where a transfer has been made explanatory notes appear in connection
with the sections.
A new set of tables of corresponding sections will be found following
the last title of the Supplement. These tables show the sections of the
Compiled Code and of the Supplement which correspond in subject matter
with the sections of the Code of 1897, Supplement of 1913, Supplemental
Supplement of 1915, and the Acts of the Thirty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, and
Thirty-ninth General Assemblies. These tables take the place of the table
of corresponding sections which appeared following the last title in the Compiled
Code.
A brief, temporary, index follows the tables of corresponding sections.
The items in this index cover only the matter enacted by the Thirty-ninth
General Assembly and the material contained in the few sections which
were omitted from the Compiled Code, but which have been printed in the
Supplement to supply the omission. The sections which have been reprinted
in the Supplement to correct an error, change a cross reference, or
relocate.the sections are not covered in the index. For these, and for the
matter in other sections which were enacted prior to the Thirty-ninth General
Assembly, the searcher must rely upon the index in the Compiled Code.
The kind and courteous treatment received from the Joint Committee
on Retrenchment and Reform of the Thirty-ninth General Assembly, which
has had general supervision of the work, is gratefully acknowledged.
OFFICE OF THE CODE EDITOR,
STATE HOUSE, DES MOINES, IOWA,
SEFTEMBEB, 1921.
U. G. WHITNEY
O. K. PATTON