Excerpt from An Historical Sketch of the Law Department of the University of Pennsylvania In March, 1791, the lower house of the Assembly of Pennsylvania appointed Judge Wilson to revise and digest the laws of the Commonwealth, to ascertain and determine how far any British statutes extended to it, and to prepare bills containing such alterations, additions, and improvements as the code of laws, and the principles and forms of the Consti tution then lately adopted, might require. In this work he made considerable progress, but it was finally abandoned, as a bill passed by the House providing for the expense of employing assistants and securing the necessary books was negatived by the Senate. Materials were then collected for a private publication, which the author did not live to arrange. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.