Such Section 275. Laws repealed.-The laws and parts of laws enumerated in the schedule hereto annexed are repealed. repeal shall not revive a law repealed by any law hereby repealed, but shall include all laws amendatory of the laws hereby repealed. § 276. Saving clause-The repeal of a law or any part of it specified in the annexed schedule shall not affect or impair any act done or right accruing, accrued or acquired, or penalty, forfeiture or punishment incurred prior to the time when this act takes effect, under or by virtue of the laws so repealed, but the same may be asserted, enforced, prosecuted or inflicted as fully and to the same extent as if such laws had not been repealed; and all actions or proceedings, civil or criminal commenced under or by virtue of the laws so repealed and pending December thirtyfirst, nineteen hundred, may be prosecuted and defended to final effect in the same manner as they might under the laws then existing unless it shall be otherwise specially provided by law. § 277. Construction. The provisions of this chapter, so far as they are substantially the same as those laws existing on December thirty-first, nineteen hundred, shall be construed as a continuation of such laws, modified or amended, according to the language employed in this chapter, and not as new enactments and references in laws not repealed, to provisions of law incorporated into this chapter and repealed, shall be construed as applying to the provisions so incorporated. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to amend or repeal any provision of the penal or criminal code. § 278. When to take effect.-This chapter shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred and one. SCHEDULE OF LAWS REPEALED. Subject. Revised statutes, part III, ch. 2, tit. 4, §§ 268-270. Removal of con- All, except cemeteries. Observance of Memorial day. Town law. Disposition of surplus money. Adds town law, § 41. Amends L. 1892, ch. 255. Amends town law, §§ 10, 38, 39. Amends town law, §§ 12-15; and fixes compensation of certain Amend town law, article 10. provements in towns. All... . . . . Adds § 2 to L. 1890, ch. 223. Amends town law; biennial town meetings. Amends town law; town meet- ings on election day. Amends L. 1892, ch. 255, § 2. Amends town law, §§ 37, 38. |