"[2] The committee was appointed on 12 April 1796, consisting of 14 members with a quorum of five and the power to "send for persons, papers, and records".

[3] The committee also summarised the history of statute law revision, finding that despite the attention of previous parliaments since the 16th-century, nothing substantial had been achieved.

2. c. 42), an act relating to window tax, which illustrates what the text calls a "hotch-potch" (mixed or inconsistent) approach to legislation.

Section 3 of this act contained a broad provision stating that all existing and future statutes mentioning England would automatically apply to Wales and Berwick-upon-Tweed, even when these places weren't specifically named.

[3] The committee found that while all public and private acts from each session were recorded sequentially on the official statute roll, the King's Printer published them as separate public and private collections with different numbering systems, creating a mismatch between chapter numbers in the official roll and the printed versions.

[3][6] The committee concluded by recommending that, for the promulgation of the statutes, the King's Printer be directed annually to print and sent a copy of all public acts to sheriffs, custos rotulorum, or clerks of the peace of each county.

[6] In 1806, the Commission on Public Records passed a resolution requesting the production of a report on the best mode of reducing the volume of the statute book.