> % * ¢ A y o eiene e m N ' » February 19. De Luxe 1927 Editi Of Ontario Statut Cost Citi $11,0662 ost Ciftizens $l11, ons »4} muonmmn en oteelel # # # _® # This Year's Revision Will Be Done Without Commis-- sioners or $1,000 Ac-- counts for Cigars, Roe-- buck Promises Legislature REVIEWS 1914 FGURES Attorney--General Roebuck reveal-- ed to the Legislature yesterday that the famous "Bible--paper," or limited, de luxe edition of the 1927 Revised Statutes of Ontario, which was pre-- pared and published under the di-- F rection of the former Ferguson Ad-- ministration, had cost the taxpayers of the Province $i11,662. There were only 500 copies print-- ed, he said. Of this number, 95 copies had been sold, at a revenue to the Crown of $2,255. And 362 coples, he said, had been "given away" by the Government "to its friends" and members of the Legis-- lature. The Revised Statutes of that year, he added, had cost $129,000, While !tho printing costs, considering the number of copies issued, were not 'cxcossively large, the honoraria paid the Commissioners in charge of the 'revision, amounting to $60,000, was '"entirely too much for this sort of work," said Mr. Roebuck. f Delving further into the past, Mr. Roebuck produced certified figures * of the Provincial Auditor to show that the Statutes revision of 1914, which had taken ten Commissioners eight years to complete, had cost Ontario $275.000 in public moneys. Of this amount, $107,000 went as honoraria to the Commissioners They also spent, he said, $6,019 on luncheons, $1,056 on cigars, $519 on newspapers, and $676 on cab hire. The records were disclosed when the Attorney--General moved second s reading to his bill providing for # * the 1937 Statutes' revision. There would be no de luxe editions of this revision, he said. There would be ) | no Commissioners on the job. There l\\'ould be no honoraria. "And no 'smoke-screen from $1,000 worth of cvigars," he added. The work would \be done, he said, by regular em-- | ployees of the legal staff of the Par-- \liament Buildings, with Eric Silk, Chief Law Clerk, and he alone, re-- sponsible to the Government for the caompleteness and accuracy of the work, "We don't need ten Commission-- ers to do this work," said he. The cost of the finished job would be trivial compared with cost of simi-- * lar work of other years, he added.