ACTS AND RESOLVES

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,

PASSED AT THE

MAY SESSION, 1851.

WITH THE ROLL OF MEMBERS, PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWO HOUSES IN
GRAND COMMITTEE, AND REPORTS ORDERED TO BE PUBLISHED.

State of Rhode Island, &c.

OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE, MA Y, 1851.

PROVIDENCE:

SAYLES & MILLER, PRINTERS.

The General Assembly convened at Newport in conformity to Art. 4, Sec. 3, of the Constitution, on the first Tuesday of May, (6th,) 1851, and adjourned on Saturday, the 10th day of May following, to meet again in Newport, on the third Monday of June, 1851.

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ACTS AND RESOLVES

PASSED AT THE

MAY SESSION, 1851.

AN ACT in amendment of an Act entitled "An Act enabling town councils to grant licenses, and for other purposes," and of the several acts in amendment thereof.

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

bling town

The sixth section of the act to which this is in "Act enaamendment, is hereby so far amended, as to extend the councils provisions of said act over all the waters of Narragan- licences, sett Bay.

to grant

and for other purposes," fur

ther amended.

AN Acr to preserve the fisheries within the waters of the Narragansett Bay, and other navigable waters

of this State.

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

throwing

igable wa

Any person or persons, who shall, from and after the Persons passage of this act, throw or cause to be thrown, any fish offal inparts of menhaden, or fish offal, into any of the waters to the navof Narragansett Bay, or other navigable waters of this ters of this State, shall upon conviction, be subject to pay a fine upon connot exceeding two hundred dollars for each offence; viction. to be recovered by indictment before any Court of competent jurisdiction to try the same.

State fined

AN ACT to restore Thomas Wilson Dorr to his civil and political rights.

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

Dorr restor

That all civil and political disabilities growing out Thomas W of the sentence of the Supreme Court passed against ed to his Thomas W. Dorr, are hereby removed; and the Thomas W. Dorr is hereby restored to his civil

said civil and and rights.

political

political rights, in as full a manner and with the same effect as if said sentence had not been passed.

Secretary authorized to have

the two

Resolved, That the Secretary cause to be printed in book form for the use of the General Assembly, the printed the joint rules and orders of the two Houses; the rules orders of and orders of the Senate and of the House; with a Houses and list of the Joint Committees and the Standing Comcopies of mittees of each House, and that he also cause ten copies and public of the Schedules and of the public laws passed since the Digest of 1844 to be obtained and bound for the use of this Assembly.

Schedules

RESOLUTION authorising the Secretary of State to have printed the joint rules and orders of the Senate and of the House; the Joint and Standing Committees of each House, and to obtain and have bound ten copies of the Schedules and of the public laws passed since the Digest of 1844.

RESOLUTION for the payment of salaries of Governor and Lieutenant Governor.

Governor

Salaries of Resolved, That the sum of four hundred dollars be and Lieut. paid out of the General Treasury to his Excellency, Governor. Henry B. Anthony, in full for his services as Governor of the State for the past year; and that the sum of two hundred dollars be paid out of the General Treasury to the Honorable Thomas Whipple, in full for his services as Lieutenant Governor for the past year.

New wing to State

RESOLUTION appropriating sixteen thousand dollars for new wings to State Prison.

Resolved, That the Inspectors of the State Prison be Prison au- and they are hereby authorized to draw out of the thorized to State Treasury from time to time, such sums of money

be erected.

as they may deem expedient for the purpose of erecting a wing to the west side of the State Prison, provided the whole amount so drawn shall not exceed the sum of sixteen thousand dollars.

RESOLUTION authorizing the Secretary to pay for and distribute the Reports of the Supreme Court.

RESOLUTION appointing Committees to receive and transfer the books and papers in the offices of Secretary of State and Clerks of Courts to their suc

cessors.

to pay for

of Supreme

Resolved, That, when the reporter of the decisions Secretary of the Supreme Court shall deposit with the Secretary and distribof State three hundred copies of part No. 3 of Vol. ute Reports I. of the Rhode Island Reports, the Secretary shall Court. be authorized to draw an order on the General Treasurer in favor of said reporter, for an amount sufficient to pay for said Reports at their market price; and that he be directed to distribute said Reports as follows: to wit-one copy to each of the United States; one copy to each of the Town Clerks of this State; one copy to each of the Justices of the Supreme Court; one copy to each of the Clerks of the Courts of this State, to be kept as appendages to their said offices, and one copy to each member of the General Assembly.

Resolved, That Sylvester Robinson be a Committee to receive from the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Washington, the books, papers and every thing else appertaining to said office, and deliver the same to the Clerk elected to said office at the present session, giving and taking the proper receipts for the same.

appointed

books and

Resolved, That Olney Arnold be a Committee to re- Committees ceive from the Clerk of the Supreme Court and Clerk to transfer of the Court of Common Pleas of Providence county, papers. the books, papers and every thing else appertaining to their respective offices, and deliver the same to the Clerks elected to the said respective offices at the present session, giving and taking the proper receipts for the same.

Resolved, That George J. Adams be a committee to receive of the Clerks of the Supreme Court and of the Court of Common Pleas of Kent county, the books, papers and every thing else appertaining to their respective offices, and deliver the same to the Clerks