No. 17. Passed May 27, 1897 RESOLUTION for distributing copies of the General Resolved, That the secretary of state be, and hereby is, instructed to furnish each member of the general assembly, who has not already received one, a copy of the General Laws together with the Public Laws enacted since the issue of the General Laws. Resolved, That when this general assembly adjourns this day it adjourn to meet at the state house in Provi dence on the last Tuesday in January, 1898, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE, PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND. I certify the acts, resolutions, record of officers elected and reports contained in this volume to be true copies of the originals on file in this office. APPENDIX. ROLL OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, begun and holden at Newport, on the last Tuesday in May, (being the 25th day of the month,) in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven and of independence the one hundred and twenty-first. PRESENT. His Excellency CHARLES WARREN LIPPITT, Governor, and ex-officio President of the Senate. His Honor EDWIN R. ALLEN, Lieutenant-Governor, and ex-officio Senator. Little Compton. Cumberland.. Richmond. Cranston. Hopkinton.. North Providence. Barrington. Foster... Burrillville.. East Providence.. Pawtucket.. Woonsocket.. North Smithfield.... Lincoln Central Falls... CHARLES P. BENNETT, Secretary of State, and ex-officio Secretary. EUGENE F. WARNER, Clerk. REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE SEVERAL TOWNS. Newport. John W. Rogers, William P. Buffum, Edward W. Higbee, Godfrey Moffitt, John H. Wetherell. Providence. William C. Baker, Rathbone Gardner, Albert Roberts, Henry G. H. Rawson, Charles F. Irons, John L. Remlinger, George R. McAuslan, Charles D. Kimball, J. Edward Studley, Alva Carpenter, Samuel Ames, Cyrus M. Van Slyck. Portsmouth. Elbridge I. Stoddard. Warwick. Henry D. Heydon, Charles E. Chagnon. Walter Price, New Shoreham. North Kingstown. William W. Congdon. South Kingstown. George T. Briggs. East Greenwich. Samuel W. K. Allen. Jamestown. Thomas G. Carr. Smithfield. Clarence H. Mathewson. Scituate. William A. Randall. Glocester. Lucius B. Steere. Charlestown. Samuel B. Hoxsie, Jr. West Greenwich. Elmer J. Rathbun. Coventry. James Ellery Hudson. Exeter. William B. Tillinghast. James R. Chase. Daniel Wilbur. Warren. Samuel L. Peck. Cumberland. Michael T. Burns, Lucius F. C. Garvin. Richmond. Charles J. Greene. Arthur E. Austin, Frank Hill. Johnston. John T. Kenyon, Henry C. Luther. North Providence. Peter Grimley. Barrington. William T. Lewis, Jr. Foster. Curtis H. Foster. Burrillville. Olney T. Inman. East Providence. Stephen S. Rich, James H. Armington. NEWPORT, Tuesday, May 25, 1897. The two houses of the general assembly met in Grand Committee for the purpose of receiving, sorting, and counting the votes for general officers, given in at the annual election held on the first Wednesday in April, 1897, and for declaring the result and inducting the officers elected into office. His Excellency, Charles W. Lippitt, Governor, in the chair. The ballots were delivered to the Grand Committee by the secretary of state. A resolution was adopted authorizing His Excellency the Governor to appoint a select committee to assort and count the votes, and to report to this Grand Committee. His Excellency appointed the following named as members of said committee, viz.: |