PAGE. Tillinghast & Mason News Co., accounts for periodicals, etc., allowed...... 219 96 161 Town councils authorized to abolish office of license commissioners 104 Town councils to be ex-officio boards of health .... ..109 Town councils, orders of, appealed from, not to be quashed for want of form..... 110 Town councils, distribution of public laws to... 187 Treasurer, general, see general treasurer. Trees, plantations of, exempt from tax in certain cases.. Trials, new, in supreme court, as of course, abolished.. Trout, penalty for unlawful taking of..... Trustee of defendant, liability of, how determined... Trustee, form of execution against personal estate in hands of. Trustee, relief of, in case of failure to file affidavit... Trustee, penalty for false answer or affidavit by... Tucker, Edward, accounts allowed...... Unfinished business, resolutions continuing.. 94 103 106 101 102 102 103 219, 220 .224, 229 Union Worsted Company, name of, changed to "Cook's Worsted Company". 172 Voters, personal property, registration of, opinion of supreme court, Appen- Wages of labor may be a preferred debt in assignments.. 162 190 222 165 221 Wardwell, William T. C., appointed member of state board of health ..... 237 Waterhouse, Giles, authorized to peddle without cost.. 221 Westcott, Amasa S., commissioner on Providence county court house, vote 196 Westerly Rifles, Companies A and B, third battalion, first brigade, militia, appropriation for..... 210 PAGE. Westerly, Second Seventh Day Baptist Church of Christ in, charter of...... 183 218 Wife's real estate, right of husband to vote on, opinion of supreme court, Wilcox, Charles W., deputy sheriff, account allowed.... 220 Woinkheige Division No. 9, Sons of Temperance, of North Smithfield, 174 Woman suffrage, report of house committee of education on, Appendix, Wood, Herbert B., account allowed............. 221 Wood, Horace B., restored to privilege of voting.... 215 .. 182 account of commissioners allowed.... 219 Woonsocket, town of, number of grand and petit jurors to be drawn for.... 101 66 66 46 44 justice court of, sheriff to deliver certain furniture to. 189 191 room for justice court.. 66 86 Institut Canadien Francais de, charter of.. .... Writ of attachment, order for sale of animals, etc.. Wrongs to children, act to punish... 169 176 174 80 111 APPENDIX CONTAINING THE FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS. No. 1.-Governor's Message. 2-Annual Report of the Adjutant General. 3-Third Report of the License Commissioners in and for the city of Provi- dence. 4-Annual Statement of the condition of the Banks and Institutions for Savings. No. 5.-Ninth Annual Report of the Board of State Charities and Corrections. 7.-Annual Report of the Railroad Commissioner. 8-Fourth Annual Report of the Commission to build a new State Prison. 9.-Second Annual Report of the Harbor Commissioners. 10.-Report of Special Committee on Woman Suffrage. 11.-Majority and Minority Reports of Special Committee of House of Repre- 12.-Report of Committee on executive communications on the subject of estab- lishing a State Board of Health. 13.-Annual Report of the Board of Cattle Commissioners. 15.-Annual Report of the Quartermaster General. 16.-Eighth Annual Report of the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries. 17.-Opinion of the Judges of the Supreme Court relative to the registration of personal property tax payers. 18. Opinion of the Judges of the Supreme Court on the right of a husband to 19. -Annual Report of the Commissioners of Shell Fisheries. 20.--Fifteenth Annual Report of the Corporation of Brown University, in refer- 22.-Final Report of the Commissioners to build a new Court House for the County of Providence. ACTS AND RESOLVES, PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, 1878. The Chapters of the Public Laws are numbered continuously from the CHAPTER 647. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 23 OF THE GENERAL Passed FebruaSTATUTES, "OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS." It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: ry 19, 1878. houses in New SECTION 1. Section 1 of chapter 23, of the General of care of state Statutes, is hereby amended by striking out the word port and Provi counties. "court" in the fifth line, and inserting the word "state" in lieu thereof. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER 648. Passed Februa- AN ACT IN ADDITION TO CHAPTER 181 OF THE GENERAL ry 19, 1878. STATUTES, "OF THE SUPREME COURT." Actions may be stricken from the courts, when. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. The supreme court, court of common the dockets of pleas, or any single justice of the supreme court, may order any action pending in either of said courts, in which neither party appears to prosecute or defend, to be stricken from the docket of such court without costs and without prejudice to the rights of any party thereto, upon such terms and conditions as the supreme court shall in their discretion prescribe by general rule of court. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 649. Passed Februa- AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 197 OF THE GENERAL Live animals and perishable may be sold on It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows : SECTION 1. Section 2 of chapter 197 of the Gengoods attached eral Statutes is hereby amended so that the same shall order of court, read as follows: "SEC. 2. Whenever any officer shall justice. attach on an original writ any live animals, or any judge, or trial |