Show LITTLE khodl LESSON an old time marriage law of the state tat of rhode island calab went into I 1 affect some seventy years ago go but fall ell 1040 desuetude deau etude a con couple pie pt of ducr jatoft MOO maa certain proTia toufi aa to the registration of minister min isten authorized zed to solemnize the marriage ceremony an aa a result of toe the failure to comply with these provisions it transpires that there has baa not been a legal marriage la in the state tor for well nigh fitly fifty years of course there will be no great difficulty in a remedy for the liao technicality an act of the legislature validating all such ceremonies can no doubt be passed without opposition buethe but abe fact remains that thal there boo bae been gross carelessness in the study ol of the statutes by those who operate under them or too point noted would loulu not have gone halt a century UL discovered it in ie a warning against toe the practice of leaving any law upon books every enactment which has baa served its ito purpose ee or is unnecessary or is ie found impracticable of enforcement ought to be repealed and wiped ott off the logis legia dative page it Is also a that the mania for making now new laws lawa which seems to possess every legislature and which the members appear to regard as aa their whole duty la in only oue ole part ot of the business for or which they are paid if it were the rule that about one legia lature in three bode be debarres debarred de barred fromang from any new legislation whatever and restricted to the ibe labor ol of clearing off obsolete useless and bad laws and making a few changes cli aDges in existing statutes which experience had shown to be necessary the books would not be so BO thick anil and puzzling the law abiding shirr would be stimulated because ordinary people could under stand what the laws law were and there would be lower fewer blunders blunden anomalies and rank rack absurdities for attorneys to have tun fun with and innocent people to suffer from |