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Revised Statutes to be given to new members of the General Assembly 44
Rhode Island and Connecticut Society, charter amended........
Riley, Ellen Wallace, adopted as the child of William D. Stewart.... 48
Rules and Orders, resolution to print......

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Slater Mutual Fire Insurance Company, charter amended..
Sopori Land and Mining Company, charter of.....
Sprague, A. & W., Manufacturing Company, charter of.
State property, instructions to the committee on......
Stewart, William D., authorized to adopt Ellen Wallace Riley as his
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Stewart, William D., authorized to adopt Sally Stewart Irish as his
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State Auditor's reports.....

Thurston, Fernandez, released from State Prison...

Tiverton, First Baptist Church and Society in, charter of...
Turner, Thomas G., elected Governor.

Valley Falls Baptist Church, in Cumberland, charter of..........

Waterman, Oliver, and wife, have leave to adopt Helen E. Mathewson

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Warren and Fall River Railroad Company, charter of amended......
Washington County, sheriff of, to remove prisoners from Kent County
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Woonasquatucket River, resolution for the survey and straightening of 43
Valley, report of the select committee on the title of

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Wright, Henry Allen, and wife, authorized to adopt as their child, Elea-

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OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

OF THE

State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations,

PASSED AT THE

JANUARY SESSION, 1860.

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

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KNOWLES, ANTHONY & CO., STATE PRINTERS.

The General Assembly convened in Providence, on the second Monday in January, 1860, (being the 9th,) in conformity with the provisions of the third section of article 4 of the Constitution, as amended by the electors on the first Tuesday of November, 1854; and adjourned on Friday, the 9th day of March, following, to meet again in Newport, on the last Tuesday in May, 1860.

ACTS AND RESOLVES

PASSED AT THE

JANUARY SESSION, 1860.

[The Chapters of the Public Acts are numbered continuously from the Revised Statutes.]

CHAPTER 320.

AN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN ADJUSTMENT OF THE EASTERN BOUND- Passed Mar. ARY OF THIS STATE, AND FOR A BOUNDARY BY AGREEMENT.

It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows:

8, 1860.

boundary.

SECTION 1. The counsel of record of this State, for the Eastern time being, in the suit of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against this State, in the Supreme Court of the United States, in relation to the eastern boundary of this State, are hereby authorized to agree to the entering of a decree in said court, in said suit, establishing for the eastern boundary of this State, a conventional line, as nearly as may be, as follows, namely:

line.

Beginning at Burnt Swamp corner, in the town of Wren- Boundary tham, thence running southerly to a point upon the eastern side of Blackstone river, where said river meets the dividing line between Attleborough and Pawtucket; thence eastwardly by the northern line of the town of Pawtucket to Farmer's or Seven Mile river; thence southerly upon the eastern side of said Farmer's or Seven Mile river by its highest water mark to its junction with Ten Mile river; thence by the highest water mark upon the eastern and southerly side of Ten Mile river to its most southern bend; thence southwardly in a straight line to a point in Runnin's river, where the same is intersected by the highway,

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