The Rhode Island Register, for the Year 1853 [and 1856]: Containing a Business Directory of the State, with a Variety of Useful Information, Volume 2Gladding & brother, 1856 - Commerce |
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Page 30
... person or firm , Deducting the new Banks which have made no dividends , the remaining 87 Banks in the State have paid an interest at the rate of 7 % per cent . per annum during the past half year . * Not including the capitals of new ...
... person or firm , Deducting the new Banks which have made no dividends , the remaining 87 Banks in the State have paid an interest at the rate of 7 % per cent . per annum during the past half year . * Not including the capitals of new ...
Page 58
... persons have received work from the store , most of these , however , having been employed during the past winter . The number of articles that have been made is 1458. The largest sum paid to any one individual is about $ 86 . The ...
... persons have received work from the store , most of these , however , having been employed during the past winter . The number of articles that have been made is 1458. The largest sum paid to any one individual is about $ 86 . The ...
Page 64
... person approved by the executive committee . Daniel E. Carpenter , President ; William Whitaker , Vice - President ; George G. Richmond , Secretary ; Apollos Richmond , Treasurer ; Wm . F. Marshall , Conductor ; Aaron Town , Librarian ...
... person approved by the executive committee . Daniel E. Carpenter , President ; William Whitaker , Vice - President ; George G. Richmond , Secretary ; Apollos Richmond , Treasurer ; Wm . F. Marshall , Conductor ; Aaron Town , Librarian ...
Page 93
... persons buying tickets at the offices . Also , to those who take the cars at stations where no tickets are sold . Children under four years of age ( in charge of an adult ) free . Children under twelve years of age , half price ; ten ...
... persons buying tickets at the offices . Also , to those who take the cars at stations where no tickets are sold . Children under four years of age ( in charge of an adult ) free . Children under twelve years of age , half price ; ten ...
Page 100
... person who has already contributed or shall hereafter contribute the sum of $ 100 to the funds of the Corporation ... persons admitted , twenty - two were from other States . Of the re- maining fifty - eight , twenty - one were supported ...
... person who has already contributed or shall hereafter contribute the sum of $ 100 to the funds of the Corporation ... persons admitted , twenty - two were from other States . Of the re- maining fifty - eight , twenty - one were supported ...
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1st-day 5th-day agent Albert Aldrich Allen Amos Annual election Annual meeting Anthony Arnold Babcock Baker Ballou Benj Benjamin Boston Bowen Brand's Iron Bristol Burrillville Capital Cashier Central Falls Centreville Chace Charles Church Clark Coggeshall Cook Cotton COUNTY Coventry Cranston Daniel David Davis Dealers dence Directors Discount Dividends payable E. B. White East Greenwich Eddy Edward Elisha Foster George W Glocester Greene Harris Henry Hopkins Hopkinton Incorporated Isaac James January and July Jenckes John H Johnston Joseph Knight Knowles Lewis Little Compton Manchester Manuf Manufacturing Mason Mills Monday Mowry Nathan Nathaniel Newport North Providence Olney Pascoag Pawtucket Peckham Philip Potter President Print Providence Brown Providence Smith Reynolds Rhode Island Richmond Robert Samuel Samuel W Sayles Scituate Secretary Sherman Shoreham Smithfield South Kingstown Stephen Street Thomas Tillinghast Tiverton town Treasurer Tuesday Valley Falls Warren Warwick Weeden Westerly Whipple Wickford William H Woonsocket York
Popular passages
Page 105 - A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner, and under such penalties, as each house may provide.
Page 111 - Courts, shall be liable to impeachment for any misdemeanor in office; but judgment in such cases shall...
Page 102 - The person of a debtor, where there is not strong presumption of fraud, shall not be continued in prison after delivering up his estate for the benefit of his creditors in such manner as shall be prescribed by law.
Page 104 - Every male citizen of the United States of the age of twenty-one years, who has had his residence and home in this State for two years, and in the town or city in which he may offer to vote six months next preceding the time of his voting...
Page 112 - It shall not be necessary for the town and ward clerks to keep and transmit to the General Assembly a list or register of all persons voting for general officers ; but the General Assembly shall have power to pass such laws on the subject as they may deem expedient.
Page 106 - Sec. 15. The General Assembly shall, from time to time, provide for making new valuations of property, for the assessment of taxes, in such manner as they may deem best.
Page 110 - Each judge shall hold his office until his place be declared vacant by a resolution of the general assembly to that effect; which resolution shall be voted for by a majority of all the members elected to the house in which it may originate, and be concurred in by the same majority of the other house. Such resolution shall not be entertained at any other than the annual session for the election of public officers...
Page 101 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 102 - In all criminal prosecutions the accused shall enjoy the right of a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury...
Page 110 - In case of vacancy by death, resignation, removal from the state or from office, refusal or inability to serve, of any judge of the supreme court, the office may be filled by the grand committee, until the next annual election, and the judge then elected shall hold his office as before provided.