Constitution of the State, and shall be numbered as additional article or articles thereof in amendment thereto.

CHAPTER 530.

AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF TITLE XXXIII. CHAPTER 230, OF Passed June THE REVISED STATUTES-" OF FEES AND COSTS IN CERTAIN 3, 1864. CASES."

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. Jailors shall hereafter be allowed for the board of State and other prisoners three dollars per week instead of two dollars as heretofore, and committing creditors shall pay three dollars upon the demand for the payment of the board of any debtor committed to jail for one week's board, and shall thereafter pay the like amount per week for any longer time for which they may be liable for the keeping of such debtor in

prison.

CHAPTER 531.

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE FURTHER ISSUE OF STATE Passed June BONDS.

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. The General Treasurer is hereby authorized, by and with the advice and direction of the Governor, to issue the Bonds of the State for an amount not exceeding in all one million of dollars, payable in thirty years from the date of such issue, in such sums as the Governor shall direct, bearing an interest not exceeding six per centum per annum payable semi-annually, with coupons attached for the payment of such interest: The Bonds and coupons to be signed by the General Treasurer, and countersigned and registered by the Secretary of State, and to be disposed of at not less than par, by the General Treasurer under the direction of the Governor, and the proceeds thereof to be credited in the military accounts of the State.

3, 1864.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after passage thereof.

CHAPTER 532.

Passed June AN ACT TO PROVIDE FURTHER REVENUE FOR THE STA 3, 1864.

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. Instead of the direct State taxes 1 provided to be levied upon the rateable property w in the State and to be apportioned among the sev towns according to the valuation fixed by law, th shall be levied, assessed and collected according to isting laws, a tax of twenty-five cents on each hund dollars of the said valuations for the use of the S for the current year, and annually in each year her ter; nineteen twenty-fifths of which tax shall from t to time, as the same may be received, be credited the military account of the State, and be applied to payment of the interest of the Bonds issued and to issued to defray its military expenses incurred dur the existing rebellion.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent h with are hereby repealed.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after passage thereof.

CHAPTER 533.

Passed June AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 119, TITLE XVIII., 3, 1864. HAWKERS AND PEDLERS."

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. The general treasurer may grant a issue to any inhabitant of this State whom he m deem suitable, a license for offering for sale and selling from packs, packages, horses, carts or other ve cles, any single article which, by reason of the prot tion afforded by patents of the United States or oth

wise, does not come into competition with the general sale thereof in the towns of this State, upon the payment of fifty dollars, for the use of the State. And said license shall describe the article, and be issued for the sale of that only, and no person holding such license shall hold a general hawker's and peddler's license for the sale of any other article.

SEC. 2. Any person holding such license as aforesaid shall be subject to all the duties and liabilities attaching to persons holding general licenses as hawkers and peddlers, as provided in the act of which this is an amendment.

RESOLUTIONS OF A PUBLIC NATURE.

No. 1. A RESOLUTION to authorize the Governor to make suitable arrangements for the reception of the Second Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers.

Resolved, That the Governor be and he is hereby requested to make suitable arrangements, in his discretion, for the reception of the Second Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers, upon their return to this State, and that he be authorized to draw upon the General Treasurer for the required expenses thereof, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

No. 2. RESOLUTION to appoint Commissioners to establish the Western boundary of the town of East Providence, and also the boundary between the towns of East Providence and Pawtucket.

Resolved, That three Commissioners be appointed by the Governor, to establish the Western boundary of the town of East Providence, and also the boundary line between the towns of East Providence and Pawtucket.

RESOLUTION relative to the disposition of moneys re- No. 3. ceived by the State Prison.

Resolved, That the Inspectors of the State Prison be and hereby are directed to pay into the State treasury any money they may now have on hand or within their control, not needed by them for the current expenses of the prison; and so to pay into the treasury any such money as they may so have from time to time hereafter, as they may receive the same.

RESOLUTION providing for repairs on Washington County No. 4.

Jail.

Resolved, That the Sheriff of the County of Washington be authorized to make any necessary repairs in the jail house in said County, and that the expense thereof be settled and allowed by the Auditor, provided it does not exceed two hundred dollars.

RESOLUTION to pay Stephen P. Arnold for certain ex- No. 5. penses attending recruiting for the Second Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers.

Resolved, That the General Treasurer be and he hereby is directed to pay out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to Stephen P. Arnold, one hundred and fifty dollars, for services and expenses in recruiting Company A, Second Regiment of Rhode Island Volunteer Militia, (from April 23d to June 5th, 1861,) and in full for his claim against the State.

RESOLUTION providing for the preservation of the por- No. 6. trait of Washington in the State House, in Newport.

Resolved, That John R. Bartlett and George G. King be directed to employ a suitable person to take such measures as they may deem necessary, to preserve from destruction the portrait of Washington in the Senate Chamber in the State House in Newport, and that the