Great Britain heretofore in use in this State, are hereby declared to be repealed and of no force and effect from and after the first day of January next, with the exceptions and limitations hereafter mentioned.
Effect of such repeal on rights accrued or suits commenced. 3. The repeal of the acts and statutes mentioned in the next preceding section shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued or established, or any suit or proceedings had or commenced in any case before the time when such repeal shall take effect, but the proceedings in every such case shall be conformed where necessary to the provisions of the revised statutes.
Effect of such repeal on offences committed or penalties incurred. 4. No offense committed, and no penalties or forfeitures incurred, under any of the acts hereby repealed and before the time when such repeal shall take effect, shall be affected by the repeal, except that when any punishment, penalty, or forfeiture shall have been mitigated by the provisions of the revised statutes, such provisions may be extended and applied to any judgment to be pronounced after said repeal.
Effect on suits or prosecutions commenced for offence. 5. No suit or prosecution pending at the time of the said repeal for any offence committed, or for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture incurred, under any of the acts hereby repealed, shall be affected by such repeal, except that the proceedings in such suit or prosecution shall be conformed when necessary to the provisions of the revised statutes.
No act heretofore repealed shall be revived by such repeal. 6. No act which has heretofore been repealed, shall be revived by the repeal contained in this act, of any of the acts herein before mentioned.
Effect of the repeal on persons holding offices. 7. All persons who, at the time when the said repeal shall take effect, shall hold any office under any of the acts hereby repealed, shall continue to hold the same according to the tenure thereof, except those offices which may have been abolished, and those as to which a different provision shall have been made by the revised statutes.
What acts are not included the repealing clause. 8. No act of a private or local nature, no act containing a grant of corporate privileges for any purpose, no act granting privileges or imposing duties in any particular county inconsistent with the general provisions of law, no act regulating the time, place and manner of elections, musters or reviews in any county, no act relating to fisheries in any particular section of the country, no act providing for the support of the poor in any county, and no act directed to be published by the tenth section of this act, shall be construed to be repealed by the second section of this act.
How the revised statutes shall be published. 9. The revised statutes enumerated in the first section of this act, shall not be published in the usual pamphlet form, (except those hereinbefore directed to take effect immediately,) with the other acts of the present session, but shall be published in a separate volume, under the superintendence and direction of two commissioners to be appointed by the governor, who, in case of vacancy after the appointment, shall fill the same; who shall procure the same to be done in good style upon the most economical terms, giving a preference, when the style and terms of printing are equal, to the printers of this State, and shall take bond, for the
