At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, Begun and Holden, ... at ... Within and for the Said State, on ..., in the Year of Our Lord ...

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Henry Ward, Secretary, 1880
 

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Página 296 - They shall make sanitary investigations and inquiries in respect to the people, the causes of disease, and especially of epidemics, and the sources of mortality and the effects of localities, employments, conditions and circumstances on the public health...
Página 24 - An act authorizing the construction of railroads upon Indian lands," passed May 12, 1836; 4. To lay out its road not exceeding six rods in width, and to construct the same; and for the purpose of cuttings and embankments, to take as much more land as may be necessary for the proper construction and security of the road; and...
Página 185 - ... shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment...
Página 4 - States in and over the tracts of land aforesaid, that all civil and criminal process issued under the authority of this State, or any officer thereof, may be executed on said lands and in the buildings that may be erected thereon, in the same way and manner as if jurisdiction had not been ceded as aforesaid.
Página 296 - ... do all in their power to ascertain the causes and the best means for the prevention of diseases of every kind in the state. They shall publish and circulate, from time to time, such information as they may deem to be important and useful for diffusion among the people of the state, and shall investigate and give advice in relation to such subjects relating to the public health, as may be referred to them by the general assembly or by the governor when the general assembly is not in session.
Página 295 - No letters of administration or letters testamentary shall be granted by any court of probate, upon the estate of any person, until the death of such person, or the facts from which the same is presumed, shall be duly certified, as near as may be, to the town clerk, in order that the same may be duly registered according to the provisions of this chapter.
Página 172 - That, for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the...
Página 92 - Whoever keeps or uses a live pigeon or other bird or fowl for the purpose of a target, or to be shot at either for...
Página 294 - ... child, or give to the undertaker or person who conducts the funeral a certificate stating, in case of a death, the name of the deceased, the date of the death, and the disease or cause of the death, and in case of the bringing forth of a still born child, the date and the cause of such child being brought forth still born.
Página 296 - SECT. 5. The board shall elect a secretary, either from their own number, or otherwise ; but when elected he shall be a member of the board, and their executive officer. He shall perform and superintend the work prescribed in this law, and such other duties as the board may require. He shall receive from the treasury, in quarterly payments, an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars and his necessary travelling expenses incurred in the performance of official duties, after they have been audited...

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