No. 118. Passed April 27, 1878. RESOLUTION Suspending Joint Rule No. 9. Resolved, That joint rule No. 9 be suspended so far that all public laws passed at the present special session [April, 1878,] shall be engrossed after the passage thereof, and the secretary of state is hereby authorized to certify the same and place them on file in his office. No. 119. Passed April 27, 1878. RESOLUTION to provide for the distribution of Volume Resolved, That the secretary of state be, and he hereby is, directed to distribute to each of the members of the present general assembly, one copy of volume XI, of the Rhode Island Reports. No. 120. Passed April 27, 1878. RESOLUTION providing for the engrossing of Public Resolved, That the secretary of state is authorized to certify the copies of chapters 634 to 646, of the public laws, both inclusive, passed at the last May session, engrossed under his direction, and place the same on file in his office. No. 121. Passed April 27, 1878. RESOLUTIONS providing for the appointment of a Resolved, That a commission to consist of eight persons, who shall be elected by the general assembly at its present special April session in grand committee, be appointed, with instructions to prepare an insolvent law for the state, and to report the same, with such recommendations respecting the same as they may deem expedient, to the next May session of the general assembly. Resolved, That the members of said commission shall serve without compensation; but they may employ a secretary, who may be one of their number, and who shall receive such compensation for his services as may be hereafter allowed him by the general assembly. [NOTE. The following named gentlemen were subsequently elected, in grand committee, commissioners for the foregoing purpose, viz: Claudius B. Farnsworth, Pawtucket; Abraham Payne, Providence: Edward D. Pearce, East Providence; Nelson W. Aldrich, Providence; Edwin Aldrich, Woonsocket; Augustus O. Bourn, Bristol; Jonathan Chace, Lincoln; George Lewis Cooke, Warren.] RESOLUTIONS for the payment of sundry accounts against the State. Resolved, That the following accounts against the state be, and the same are hereby, allowed and ordered to be paid; and the state auditor is directed to draw his order on the general treasurer for the said several amounts out of any money unappropriated in the treasury, viz: George Manchester, sheriff of Newport county, for warning members of the general assem- Thomas J. Tilley, sheriff of Kent county, for No. 122. .$32 50 No. 123. the same.......... 24 60 L. T. Fisher, sheriff of Bristol county, for same, county, for same.. 3 55 Osmond C. Goodell, deputy sheriff, Providence county, for same... 2 30 Frederick N. Goff, deputy sheriff, Providence county, for same..... 13 10 H. M. Pierce, deputy sheriff, Providence coun ty, for same........... 8 25 Albert C. Johnson, deputy sheriff, Providence county, for same... 13 35 Charles H. Scott, deputy sheriff, Providence O. A. Inman, deputy sheriff, Providence coun- Stephen G. Benedict, deputy sheriff, Providence 11 75 11 35 655 No. 125. Passed April 27, 1878. RESOLUTION to pay officers and attendants of the General Assembly at the Special Session, April, A. D. 1878. Resolved, That the following sums be paid to the following persons, officers and attendants of the general assembly at the special session, April, 1878: No. 126. Passed April 27, 1878. and the state auditor is directed to draw his order on the general treasurer for the said several amounts out of any money unappropriated in the treasury. JOINT RESOLUTION of adjournment. Resolved, (the house of representatives concurring herein,) That when the general assembly adjourns, this 27th day of April, A. D. 1878, it adjourn to meet according to law. RESOLUTION Continuing unfinished business. Resolved, That all business remaining unfinished before this special session of the general assembly be continued to the next May session of the general assembly. No. 127. Passed April 27, 1878. SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE, PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island. I certify the acts, resolutions, record of officers elected, and reports contained in this volume, to be true copies of the originals on file in this office. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereto A. D. day of APPENDIX. ROLL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden at Providence on the fourth Tuesday in January, (being the twenty-second day of the month,) in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, and of independence the one hundred and second. PRESENT. His Excellency CHARLES C. VAN ZANDT, Governor, and ex-officio President of the Senate. His Honor ALBERT C. HOWARD, Lieutenant Governor, and ex-officio Senator. SENATORS FROM THE SEVERAL TOWNS. Newport, Portsmouth, Warwick, Westerly, New Shoreham, T. MUMFORD SEABURY. THOMAS DAVIS. ALFRED SISSON. CHRISTOPHER R. GREENE. SAMUEL H. CROSS. RAY S. LITTLEFIELD. North Kingstown, ELISHA DYER, JR. South Kingstown, East Greenwich, HENRY A. THOMAS. Jamestown, THOMAS CARR WATSON. |