Section 3.3.2 Long Ledgers

As the years progressed and Parliament passed more and more decrees, Paxons had to pore over an ever longer list of decrees to find the current olive tax or what color goat could be sold. A legislator who returned to the Chamber after an extended voyage had to do quite a bit of copying to bring his ledger up to date. Eventually, the legislators were forced to convert their ledgers from lists of decrees into law books that contained only the current state of the law and the number of the last decree whose passage was reflected in that state.