The slow procedure of setting up Kosatsu could not follow the complete changes in the general acts and laws promoted by the Meiji Restoration; (the stationary nature of Kosatsu system for long-term posting of notes in public also did not meet the policy of the new Meiji government who wanted to drastically change and restore the general laws)
明治維新とともに法令が一変して、手続が追いつかない事（また、長く掲げる事を目的とした高札の「固定性」も漸進的に法令を改正していく新政府の方針にそぐわなかった）。