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According to the preface to the Code, " From 1897 to 1907 a commission was engaged in an effort to codify the great mass of accumulating legislation.

The work of the commission involved an expenditure of over $ 300, 000, but was never carried to completion.

" In the absence of an official code, private publishers once again collected the more recent statutes into unofficial codes.

The first edition of the United States Code ( published as Statutes at Large Volume 44, Part 1 ) includes cross-reference tables between the U. S. C.

and two of these unofficial codes, United States Compiled Statutes Annotated by West Publishing Co. and Federal Statutes Annotated by Edward Thompson Co.