What was the first official federal code?
The United States Revised Statutes of 1873. This compilationincluded the substance of all the currently effective statutes inthe Statutes at Large from 1789 to 1872, and when enacted intopositive law, it repealed all the prior statutes on which it wasbased. The Revised Statutes of 1878 corrected errors in the 1873 revision. Sections in the Revised Statutes are numberedsequentially throughout the compilation, so you need cite only toa section in the revision (for example, R.S. sec. 50). To find if a section of the Revised Statutes is in the currentUnited States Code, check Table II in the USC tables volume. Tofind if a USC section is derived from the Revised Statutes, checkthe derivation notes contained in parentheses following thesection.
