Miscellaneous Provisions.

§§ 160-163

§ 160. Laws repealed.—Of the laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed, that portion specified in the last column is repealed. Such repeal shall not revive a law repealed by any law hereby repealed, but shall include all laws amendatory of the laws hereby repealed.

§ 161. Saving clause.-The repeal of a law or any part of it specified in the annexed schedule shall not affect or impair any act done, or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or liability, penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, under or by virtue of any law so repealed, but the same may be asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted, as fully and to the same extent, as if such law had not been repealed; and all actions and proceedings civil or criminal, commenced under or by virtue of the laws so repealed and pending on April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, may be prosecuted and defended to final effect, in the same manner as they might under the laws then existing, unless it shall be otherwise specially provided by law.

§ 162. Construction. The provisions of this chapter, so far as they are substantially the same as those of laws existing on April thirtieth eighteen hundred and ninety-one, shall be construed as a continuation of such laws, modified or amended according to the language employed in this chapter, and not as new enactments; and references in laws not repealed to provisions of laws incorporated into this chapter and repealed shall be construed as applying to the provisions so incorporated, and nothing in this chapter shall be construed to amend or repeal any provision of the Criminal or Penal Code.

§ 163. When to take effect.-This chapter shall take effect on May first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED.

Revised Statutes.... Part I, chap. 18, title I.. All.