"Published under the terms of the contract made by the Statute Compilation Commission for the publication of the General statutes of 1923. Embracing the organic laws, the Constitution, and the statutes contained in the General statutes of 1923, except those which have been repealed or superseded by the subsequent legislation of 1925 and 1927. And also embracing laws omitted from the General statutes 1923 and the laws of the 1925 and 1927 sessions of the Legislature under appropriate classification."