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Accepting the Gift Annual Report applied appointed April Assembly authorized to fence Board of Aldermen bound Brown Burial Ground Fund burial lot standing burying lots sufficient chapter 367 City Council Records City of Providence City Treasurer commissioners Council in relation December deed Dexter easterly enclose burying lots enclose such lots February feet fifty dollars future regulations hereby accepted hereby authorized highway hundred dollars income thereof January 14 John June 28 land leave to fence Mayor and provided North Burial Ground North Main street North Providence Northerly October October 25 Overseer Pawtucket Turnpike person petition petitioners plat preservation preservation and care privileges hereby granted provisions of chapter public laws purchase purpose provided Read whereupon requesting leave Resolution accepting gift Rhode Island rods Section September 17 Sexton street Smithfield Turnpike Superintendent thence North Thomas Town Council Town Meeting Records Town of Providence trust westerly Whelden
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Page 288 - Then personally appeared the above named , Collector of Taxes for the of , and acknowledged the foregoing instrument to be his free act and deed.
Page 143 - Lu, eight hundred and fifty-three, is hereby appropriated out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of...
Page 56 - That all penalties which shall accrue under this act, shall be sued for and recovered in an action of debt, in the name of the United States...
Page 357 - Act are hereby repealed, said repeal to take effect on and after the passage of this Act, but the repeal of existing laws or modifications thereof embraced in this Act shall not affect any act done, or any right accruing or accrued, or any suit or proceeding had or commenced in any civil cause before...
Page 252 - That the sum of five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended by...
Page 51 - REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE IN 1791. "At a town meeting of the Freemen of. the town of Providence, held, by adjournment, at the State House, on Monday, the 1st day of August, 1791. " WHEREAS, the School Committee, who were, on the 6th and 13th days of June last, appointed and continued to make report respecting a petition pending before the meeting, for the erection of schools in this town, the...
Page 360 - ... between the first day of November and the first day of April...
Page 92 - Whenever any person shall die in the state, it shall be the duty of the physician attending in his or her last sickness, within forty-eight hours after the death, to leave with the family, if any, or persons having the care of the deceased, or to give to the undertaker or person who conducts the funeral, a certificate stating the name of the deceased, the date of the death, and the disease or cause of death.
Page 132 - ... notice. (c) The authority of the President to enter into foreign trade agreements under section 1 of this Act shall terminate on the expiration of three years from the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 3. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to give any authority to cancel or reduce, in any manner, any of the indebtedness of any foreign country to the United States.
Page 318 - ... more than fifteen dollars, and shall be of such design and material as shall be approved by the board of supervisors, and the expense of such burial and headstone as above provided for, shall be a charge upon and shall be paid by the county in which the said soldier, sailor or marine shall have died.