46 Whatcheer Fire and Marine Insurance Co., in, charter of... 27 36 Public acts, report of committee on the engrossment of, and resolution relative to...... Public notaries elected by the General Assembly Quidnick Company, act to incorporate.. 11 66 37 13 Revolutionary officers, resolutions relative to the half-pay of..... Rhode Island Agricultural Society, sales of goods by, exempted from auction duty... Richmond, Second Baptist Church in, act to incorporate.... Rodman, Caroline, (a Narragansett Indian) authorized to sell land.......... 9 52 57 11 17 12 12 Saint Alban's Lodge, No. 6, of Free Masons in Bristol, act to incorporate 47 Smithfield Manufacturing Company, act to incorporate. 35 South Kingstown, Second Free Will Baptist Church in, charter of 51 53 81 State auditor's report................ State Mutual Fire Insurance Company, charter of, amended, authorizing a "manufacturers' class". Swan Point Cemetery, act to incorporate... 23 44 Tinker, Harris Howard, authorized to change his name to Harris Howard 55 Warwick, Phenix Savings Bank in, act to incorporate. 40 39 31 10 14 Washington county jail, appropriation of $2,000 for completing addition to 15 court house, jury seats to be altered..... 66 Whatcheer Fire and Marine Insurance Company, in Providence.. 16 . 27 58 OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OF THE State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, 1859. WITH THE ROLL OF MEMBERS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWO HOUSES IN GRAND COMMITTEE, AND REPORTS ORDERED TO BE PUBLISHED. The General Assembly convened at Providence, on the third Monday in January, 1859, (being the 17th,) in conformity with the provisions of the third section of article 4 of the Constitution, as amended by the electors on the first Tuesday of November, 1854, and adjourned on Saturday, the twelfth day of March, following, to meet again in Newport, on the last Tuesday in May, 1859. ACTS AND RESOLVES PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, 1859. [The Chapters of Public Acts are numbered continuously from the Revised Statutes.] CHAPTER 289. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE ARRANGEMENT AND PASSAGE OF THE It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows : to be num SECTION 1. All acts of a public nature shall be numbered, Public acts as chapters, continuously in the order of their passage, bered. from the number of the last chapter in the Revised Statutes. SEC. 2. Every act of a public nature, passed in amend- of titles. ment of or in addition to any chapter of the Revised Statutes, or in amendment of or in addition to any act of a public nature passed since the Revised Statutes went into operation, shall contain in the title thereof, a reference to the number and name of the chapter to which the same is in amendment or addition. of laws. SEC. 3. The secretary of state shall affix to all acts of Publication a public nature, the proper numbers of the chapters thereof, in the pamphlets of the proceedings of the General Assembly published at the close of each session, and also in the pamphlets of the public laws published every two years. SEC. 4. Chapter 258, entitled "An act in relation to the passage, titles and arrangement of the public laws," is hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect immediately after the passage thereof. |