Term of and how elected. SEC. 2. As the office or offices of the several members of the committee shall become vacant by the expiration of their terms of service, the vacancy or vacancies shall be filled for the term of three years by the town at the annual election of town officers; a vacancy occurring in any other way shall be filled by the town council until the next annual town meeting for town officers, when it shall be filled for the unexpired term as above provided. SEC. 3. Chapter 970 of the Public Laws, passed at the January session, 1891, and Chapter 1113 of the Public Laws of the January session, 1892, are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Passed Feb. 2. 1897. Town of Cran ston authorized 000 of bonds. CHAPTER 494. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF CRANSTON TO ISSUE It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. The town of Cranston is hereby given to issue $159 authority to issue bonds to an amount not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed four per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, and be made payable at a time not exceeding forty years. The principal and interest of said bonds shall be payable in gold coin of the United States, of the present standard of weight and fineness. The said bonds shall be signed by the town treasurer and countersigned by the town clerk, and the denomination and form of said bonds, the time and place of their payment, the time and manner in which the said bonds shall be issued and sold, shall from time to time be prescribed by ordinance of the town council of said town. SEC. 2. At the annual financial meeting in said town there shall be annually appropriated a sum sufficient to pay the interest due or to become due on said bonds before the next annual financial meeting, and also a sum to be placed as a sinking-fund, sufficient for the redemption of said bonds when due, and all premiums arising from the sale of said bonds shall be placed to the credit of said sinking fund. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect upon its approval by the town at any financial town meeting. CHAPTER 495. AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE TENURE OF OFFICE FOR POLICE Passed April OFFICIALS IN THE TOWN OF CUMBERLAND. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. The town council of the town of Cum berland may appoint so many and such police constables for special duties, including a chief of police, as may, from time to time be determined upon, and may, at any time, suspend any such officer from his office, upon charges of official misconduct or incapacity, preferred by the chief of police: Provided, however, that the members of the paid police department of said town, including those now already appointed, shall not be subject to removal from office at any time, except for misconduct or incapacity of such a character as the town council may deem a disqualification for said office, and all such removals shall be by the town. council, upon charges made in writing and of which the officer complained of shall have had notice and opportunity to be heard thereon. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on and after its passage. 30, 1897. Town council authorized to officials and fix of Cumberland appoint police their tenure of office. CHAPTER 496. AN ACT DIVIDING THE TOWN OF EAST PROVIDENCE INTO Passed Feb. 5, DISTRICTS FOR THE PURPOSE OF VOTING. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. That the town of East Providence is 1897. Providence, di voting districts. District No. 2. Town of East hereby divided into three districts for the purpose of vided into three balloting for United States, State, Town and District Officers, to be designated and bounded as follows, viz: All that part of the town laying north of a line beginning at the east abutment of the Red Bridge in said town and running easterly through the centre of Waterman avenue to Massasoit avenue; thence through the centre of said Massasoit avenue to Broadway; thence northerly through the centre of Broadway to Centre street; thence easterly through the centre of Centre street to Pawtucket avenue; thence northerly through the centre of Pawtucket avenue to Ten Mile river; thence easterly bounding northerly on Ten Mile river to the Massachusetts boundary, shall be called District No. 2, and the ballots of the electors residing in said district shall be cast at the Town House at District No. 1. East Providence Centre. That part of the town laying south of said line beginning at east abutment of Red Bridge and north of a line beginning at the Silver Spring wharf in said town and running easterly through the centre of the road from Silver Spring to the north and south road near the residence of James H. Armington, and thence running east to the boundary line between the states of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, shall be called district No. 1, and the ballots of the electors residing in said district shall be cast at such convenient place in said district as may be District No. 3. designated therefor by the town council. All that part of said town lying south of said line running easterly from said Silver Spring wharf as aforesaid shall be called district No. 3, and the ballots of the electors residing in said district shall be cast at such convenient place in said district as may be designated therefor by the town council. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall go into effect immediately. CHAPTER 497. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE TOWN OF EAST PROVIDENCE Passed May 14, TO ISSUE BONDS. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. The town of East Providence is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds under its corporate name and seal, in addition to the bonds heretofore authorized, to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars. Said bonds shall be of a denomination not less than one hundred nor more than five thousand dollars each, shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding four per centum per annum, payable semi-annually, and the principal and interest thereof shall be payable in gold coin of the United States of America of the present standard of weight and fineness. Said bonds shall be divided into two classes, whereof the first shall consist of bonds to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and become due and payable in twenty-five years from the date thereof; and the second class shall consist of bonds to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, payable in fifty years from their date. Said bonds shall be obligatory upon said town, in the same manner and to the same extent as other debts lawfully contracted by said town. 1897. Town of East thorized to bonds. Providence au issue $100,000 sale of bonds, Proceeds of except premi be applied to present and debtedness of um thereon, to the payment of future in town. SEC. 2. The said bonds shall be issued and sold by the town council of said town, in such manner and at such times as the said town council may authorize and direct. The proceeds arising from the sale thereof shall be delivered to the town treasurer, and shall be applied, with the exception of the premium derived from the sale of said bonds, to the payment of the present and future indebtedness of said town, but no purchaser of said bonds shall be in any way bound to see to the proper application of the proceeds thereof. SEC. 3. The bonds hereby authorized shall be Bonds, how to signed by the town treasurer and countersigned by the town clerk. SEC. 4. Said town shall annually appropriate until said bonds are paid in full, besides a sum sufficient to pay the interest upon the bonds hereby authorized, a be signed. of interest sinking fund. thereon, and sum to be placed as a sinking fund sufficient for the redemption of the bonds hereby authorized, when and as the same become due and payable, and all premiums arising from the sale of said bonds shall be placed to the credit of said sinking fund. SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. Passed May 5, 1897. Town of John ston, school of, authorized to issue $17,500 of bonds. CHAPTER 498. AN ACT AUTHORIZING SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1, TOWN OF It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. School District No. 1, of the town of district No. 1 Johnston, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue bonds under its corporate name and seal to an amount not exceeding seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Said bonds shall bear interest not exceeding four per cent. per annum, and be payable at a time not exceeding thirty years from the date of said bonds, interest and principal to be paid in gold coin of the United States of the present standard of weight and fineness. Said bonds shall be obligatory upon said district in the same manner and to the same extent as other debts lawfully contracted by said district. SEC. 2. Said bonds hereby authorized shall be signed by the district treasurer and countersigned by the district clerk, and said district shall, at each annnal meeting, provide for the payment of interest of said bonds, and shall also, annually at said district meetings, appropriate a sum sufficient to accumulate a sinking fund to pay said bonds at maturity. SEC. 3. The denomination and form of said bonds, the time and place of their payment, and the time and manner in which said bonds shall be issued and sold, shall be determined within the limitations of this act by a committee to be elected by said district. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect upon its passage. |