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The Territorial Legislature passed the Code of 1881

By 1881 hundreds of laws had been passed by the Territorial Legislature. In many cases the original laws had been amended and re-amended several times which caused a great deal of confusion. The "codification" of the laws in 1881 is the first effort in Washington to bring all of the laws together in a single volume, unified and up-to-date. The current "Revised Code of Washington" is the direct descendent of the Code of 1881.