RESOLUTION for the pay of officers attending upon the Gen- No. 37. eral Assembly, January session, A. D. 1860.

Voted and resolved, That the State auditor be, and he is hereby, directed to pay the following named persons the following sums of money out of the appropriations for the expenses of the General Assembly:

RESOLUTION appointing a joint committee to ascertain by No. 38. chemical analysis if there is any deleterious matter in the public waters of the State.

Resolved, That a joint committee be appointed, consisting of Mr. Geo. Lewis Cooke, of the Senate, and Messrs. Van Zandt and Peck, of the House, whose duty it shall be to ascertain by chemical analysis and otherwise, what, if any, deleterious matters are emptied into the public waters of this State; and report to the General Assembly at the next session thereof, what legislation is necessary, to preserve the oysters and other fish in said waters.

RESOLUTION of thanks to His Excellency Thomas G. No. 39. Turner.

Resolved, That the Senate have great pleasure in expressing their thanks to His Excellency the Governor, for

the able and dignified manner in which he has presided over the deliberations of this body; and that in terminating their official intercourse with His Excellency and with one another, the senators personally feel a cordial satisfaction in placing it on record, that the agreeable harmony which throughout the year has pervaded all their deliberations, is much owing to the impartial courtesy of the chair.

No. 40.

No. 41.

RESOLUTION relative to adjournment.

Resolved, (The House of Representatives concurring herein), that the two houses of the General Assembly, when they adjourn on Friday next, the 9th of March, will adjourn to meet again according to law.

RESOLUTION of adjournment.

Voted and resolved, That all business pending before this General Assembly, unfinished, be referred to the next session; and that this General Assembly be, and the same is hereby, adjourned to meet according to law.

ACTS

OF A

LOCAL AND PRIVATE NATURE.

AN ACT IN ADDITION TO AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE STOCK- No. 1.

HOLDERS OF THE ARCADE BANK.

Upon the petition of the president, directors and stockholders of the Arcade Bank, representing that, through losses, the capital stock of said bank has been greatly reduced, and praying that the par value of its shares may be reduced from fifty dollars to twenty-five dollars per share; It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. The par value of each share of the capital stock of the Arcade Bank, is hereby reduced to the sum of twenty-five dollars for each share.

SEC. 2. The said Arcade Bank shall continue to retain, possess, exercise and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges, which it has heretofore enjoyed, except that its issue and circulation of bills or notes, shall hereafter be proportioned to the reduced value of its capital stock.

No. 2. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF "AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE FARM

ERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF RHODE ISLAND.”

It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows:

SECTION 1. The fifth section of said act is hereby so amended, that said company may hereafter, in addition to their present powers by said section, insure dwelling houses and out buildings connected therewith, of whatever materials the same may be constructed, and wherever the same may be situated.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its sage.

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No. 3. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT ENTITLED AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE WARWICK INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS," AND OF THE ACTS IN AMENDMENT OF, OR IN ADDITION TO THE SAME.

It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows:

SECTION 1. The sum which may be received by said corporation in deposits, and remain under its management, may be increased to, but shall not exceed, the sum of one million of dollars.

No. 4. AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE BLACKSTONE VALLEY FIRE INSURANCE

COMPANY.

It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows:

SECTION 1. Bradbury C. Hill, Edward Harris, Otis D. Ballou, Spencer Mowry, Daniel N. Paine, Samuel Greene, Libeus Gaskill, P. W. Lippitt, O. J. Rathbun, Lyman A. Cook and Charles E. Aldrich, together with their successors and assigns, and such others as may associate with them, are hereby erected, created and ordained a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Blackstone Valley Fire Insurance Company, in Woonsocket; and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and shall be able and capable in law to make insurance upon all legal subjects of insurance, except life and health insurance, with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities applicable to such corpora

tions, set forth in chapters one hundred and twenty-five (125) and one hundred and twenty-nine (129) of the Revised Statutes; and in all other chapters in addition to, or in amendment thereof.

SEC. 2. Said company, by and in the corporate name of said company, shall have full power and authority to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to defend and be defended against, and to answer and be answered unto in all courts of law and equity.

SEC. 3. Said company shall be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to hold annual meetings on the first Monday in January in each and every year, and at all other times in each year, as they may deem necessary, in the village of Woonsocket, in the town of Cumberland; at which said annual meeting, the said company shall elect not less than seven nor more than thirteen directors, to hold their office for one year, and until others are elected in their places; and at the said meeting, and at all other legal meetings, said company may choose such other officers as they may judge necessary for conducting the business thereof; and in case of vacancies in the office of directors, as aforesaid, by death, resignation or disqualification, the board of directors shall have power to fill the same until the next annual meeting.

SEC. 4. No person shall be eligible to the office of director, as aforesaid, unless, at the time of his election, he shall be a proprietor of at least twenty shares in said com pany, and a resident in this State; and no director shall hold office longer than he shall continue proprietor and resident, as aforesaid; and the said directors, for the time being, shall have power to appoint a president, secretary and other officers, if necessary; and to allow said president, secretary, directors and other officers a reasonable compensation for their respective services; to agree upon all policies for insurance and the premiums, and cause the same to be signed by the president in behalf of the company, and countersigned by the secretary, who shall also sign and countersign respectively all written contracts and agreements made by said company; to make all contracts and to appropriate and improve the funds and property of said company, and the same to dispose of in such manner as they may deem most beneficial thereto; and generally to superintend and execute the affairs and business of said company, conformably to the rules and regulations and