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revision. Wherever defects have been discovered, they have been remedied [remedied]; ambiguities have been explained, and its application illustrated by able jurists in both States. Having stood the test of time and received the sanction of those who are subject to its operation it may be presumed to be generally as well adapted to the circumstances of the people as it is possible to make it. If however the existing laws have proved ineffectual, in any instance, for the security of the person, property or reputation of the citizen or generally for preventing those offences which endanger the good order of society, the attention of the Legislature will be directed to supplying the defect. Laws should be made so clear that evry [every] member of the community may understand them, so explicit as to leave no room for doubt as to their true interpretation, and after having been enforced for a long time and approved by experience should not be altered but with great caution. By our Constitution it is made the duty of the Governor to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." This duty it is impossible for him to perform except through the agency of the Officers of Government resident in the various parts of the State. No law should remain a dead letter; it ought either to be enforced or expunged from the Statute book, lest the contempt with which it is viewed, be extended to the whole code. And are there not laws of high importance to the moral health and good order of the community, to the faithful execution of which too little attention is devoted? Who can say how many individuals may be saved from ruin, and families from wretchedness by due attention of the proper officers to the various legal provisions for the suppression of intemperance; or who will doubt, but that by