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165 FRENCH SOCIETY OF COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION. 165 2. Annuals. — Since 1872 the Society has published every year an Annual of Foreign Legislation, and, since 1882, an Annual of French Legislation. The first contains the translation of laws of general interest published annually in foreign countries ; the French translation of each law is preceded by a notice and accompanied by notes upon the genesis of the law and former legislation ; a general notice on the legislative work of each country, containing chiefly the mention or a brief analysis of laws, which are not suf- ficiently important to be translated in extensOy precedes the sep- arate notices and the translation of the laws of the country in question. The Annual of French Legislation contains the anno- tated text of the French laws of general interest issued during the year. 3. Various Publications. — The Society, apart from its peri- odical publications, has published a general treatise on the French and foreign laws relating to aliens, and an analogous work on the Law of Notaries. 4. Foreign Codes. — Finally the Society has undertaken to publish a translation of the principal foreign codes. The trans- lation of the Austrian Code of Criminal Procedure of 1873, made by MM. Ed. Bertrand and Ch. Lyon-Caen, was printed by order of the government at the National Printing Press, and appeared in 1875. Since then the Committee on Foreign Legislation, established at the Ministry of Justice, has been charged with the official continuation of this work. With this object the Com- mittee has called for the co-operation of the Society of Compara- tive Legislation, which has provided translators. The Committee in conjunction with the Society has published the following Codes : — 1. The German Commercial Code and German Bills of Ex- change Act, translated by MM. P. Gide. Ch. Lyon-Caen, J. Flack, and J. Stourm. 2. Penal Code of Holland, translated by M. W. Wintgens. 3. German Code of Criminal Procedure, translated by M. F. Daguin. 4. German Code of the Organization of the Judiciary, translated by M. L. Dubarle. 5. The Colonial Charters and the Constitutions of North America, translated by M. A. Gourd. 6. Hungarian Penal Code, translated by MM. E. Glasson, E. Lederlin, and F. R. Dareste.