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kept of all proceedings had thereupon " ; and so the same words were carrie d
forward in section 1199, Revised Statutes, where they remain to base th e
ground of this contention .
' I find nothing in the legislative development that is even worthy of re -
mark in this connection . The word revise (or revision) is the only granting
word now as it was in the beginning . There is precisely the same power, n o
greater and no less . If history is to be invoked, therefore, we must look t o
the administrative and not to the legislative history of the statute . And this
brings us to -
3 . ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENTAL PRACTICE .