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Barton, William, 317, 323, 339, 401, 1060.
Baseball, 118I.
Beautiful Newport, 1172.
Beaver Tail, 225, 338, 384, 561, 1173.
Beeckman, R. L., 680, 683, 707, 709, 710, 947, III3, 1135, 1190.
"Beef and beer," 296, 306.
Bellemont, Lord, 165, 168, 234.
Bench and Bar, chapter XXVI, 506, 743-44, 746, 776, 778, 912.
Berkeley, George, 120, 124, 210, 991, 998, 1012, 1030, 1049, 1064-65, 1070, 1127, 1145-46, 1172. Bernon, Gabriel, 31, 118-19, IOII.
Betsy the Sniper, 1118-19, 1122.
Bible, Rhode Island, 1092. See "Journal."
Bicknell, Thomas W., 546, 551-52, 1059, 1060-61.
Bicycle, 844, 846, 880, 1181, 1188.
Biennial elections, 657-58, 672, 1188, 1190.
Biennial registration, 689, 1191.
Bill of rights, 83, 379, 393, 397, 466, 469, 472-73, 499, 641, 667, 672, 680, 1184.
Billeting of troops, 233, 245, 249, 251.
Color discrimination, 475, 486-87, 499, 545, 625, 633, 956, 1160.
Conscience, liberty of, 32, 49, 53, 70-71, 76, 79, 80, 85, 97, 99, 100, 102, 113, 161-63, 170, 213, 351, 440, 935, 959, 1071, 1183, 1195.
Freedom of contract, press, religion, speech and thought, 344, 351-52, 366, 379, 422, 469, 470, 476, 520, 563, 667, 670, 709, 959, 970, 1007- 1008, 10II, 1081, 1083, 1126, 1196-97. Inalienable rights, 484. Natural law, 294, 478, 484, 1184.
Slavery and slave trade, 43, 91, 120, 196, 198, 200-01, 265, 339, 370, 380, 385, 459, 460-61, 472, 513, 515-16, 560, 586-88, 591, 600, 648, 691, 816, 886, 928, 1131, 1185. Dred Scott decision, 591, 595. Fugitive slave law, 587-89, 591, 691, 1185.
Personal liberty law, 577-78, 691, 1185, 1195. Somerset case, 201.
Taxation for churches, 118.
Bimetalism, 663, 673, 695, 697, 784, 918, 969, 970, 1097, 1186.
Blackstone Canal, 10, 513, 523, 582, 795, 827-28,
846, 887, 911, 1010, 1149, 1150, 1185. Blackstone, William, 20, 49, 50, 64, 117, 885, 1068, 1126, 1145.
Bliss, William C., 949.
Bliss, Zenas R., 607.
Bliss, Zenas W., 852, 949, 1063.
Block, Adrian, 17.
Block Island, 17, 35, 130, 212, 718, 838, 847, 850, 1 167-69, 1175, 1187.
"Bloody Tenent," 51, 1059.
Boards and commissions, 719, 725-26, 730, 733, 752-53, 783, 1040.
Bossism, 677, 702, 1187. See Lobbying.
Boston port bill, 260-62.
Boundaries, 4, 5, 58, 62, 64, 101, 196, 348, 432, 593, 646, 739, 1010, 1185.
Bourn amendment, 652, 655-56, 659, 660, 1132, 1186, I193.
Bourn, Augustus O., 645, 651, 654-55, 658.
Bowen, family of doctors, 1029.
Bowen, Jabez, 345-46, 348, 372-73, 389, 417, 466.
Boycott of English manufacturers, 249, 250-51, 265, 960, 1I28. of street railway, 670, 674.
Bradford, William, 362, 365.
Brayton, Charles R., 622-23, 637, 652, 658, 677-78. Breda, declaration of, 32, 96, 1007.
Brenton, Jahleel, 166-67, 176, 299.
Brenton, William, 72, 74.
Breweries, and distilleries, 264, 399, 513, 648, 888, 928-29.
Bribery and corruption, alleged, 214, 398, 578, 642, 659, 708-09, 710, 952, 1190.
Bridges, 196, 202, 212, 400-03, 522-23, 528-29, 530, 724, 737, 739, 784-85, 791, 821-23, 839, 844- 46, 910-1I, 1185, 1189.
Mount Hope bridge, 523, 821, 845, 853-54.
Red Bridge (Central Bridge), 401, 522, 821, 823, 831, 846, 1178.
Stone bridge, 821, 823, 829, 845.
Toll bridges, 522, 823, 876-77, 845.
Washington Bridge, 401, 403, 724, 737, 785, 821, 828, 837-39, 840, 845, 853, 1189. Brinley, Francis, 63, 107, 156, 161, 168-69, 173-74, 176.
Bristol, 31, 279, 323.
Brook street improvement, 789, 807, 1186.
Brown & Ives, 763, 863, 865, 1195.
Brown & Sharpe, 519, 861, 869, 870.
Brown, Chad, 71, 401, 402.
Brown, D. Russell, 661, 663, 665, 1096, 1186.
Brown, James, 399, 401-02.
Brown, John, 240, 255-57, 275, 295, 303, 340, 362, 370, 402-03, 407-08, 440, 515, 522-23, 560, 562, 648, 791, 821-23, 827-28, 837, 887, 909, 928, 961-62, 986, 1013.
Brown, John Carter, 967, 972.
Brown, John Nicholas, 972.
Brown, Joseph, 295, 298, 961.
Brown, Moses, 259, 399, 403, 405, 408, 416-17, 515- 516, 522, 525, 528-29, 531, 791, 821, 823, 995, IOI3.
Brown, Nicholas, 234, 303, 417, 466, 962, 965, 1034, 1041.
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Brown, Obadiah, 399, 401-02.
Brown, the four brothers, 189, 401-02, 440, 513, 515-16, 560, 648, 900, 1195.
Bull, Henry, 164, 166, 1009. Bull, Melville, 697-98.
Burges, Tristam, 529, 167-69, 571, 698, 745, 963, 965, 1060-61, 1065, 1072, 1195.
Burchard, Roswell B., 31, 456-57, 1055.
Burgoyne, 283, 287, 316, 322, 338, 495-96, 636, 703, 705. Burke, Edmond, 244, 1150.
Burrill, James, 419, 468, 562, 564-65, 586, 745, 963, 1088, 1195.
Burnside, Ambrose E., 586, 600-03, 605, 615, 617, 623, 627, 631, 635, 637-39, 643-44, 695-96, 763, 1053, 1093. Butler, Benjamin F., 654, 765-66, 777.
Butler, Cyrus, 910, 913, 1034, 1072-73.
Cable tramway, 831, 841. Calendar, Gregorian, 230. Julian, 1165. California, 578, 587, 603, 1166.
Canada, 358, 849. Canned goods and can-opener, 892-93, 921.
Cannon and muskets, 295, 398-99, 514, 519, 861.
Canonchet, 692, 1173.
Capitals of Rhode Island, 513, 575, 641, 675, 1187- II8S.
Carpenter, Thomas F., 489, 490, 502, 756, 758. Carrington, Edward, 515, 523.
Carter, John, 293, 1082-86. Case, Norman S., 689, 711, 1191.
Casey, Albert, 983.
Casey, Silas, 631. Cassidy, Thomas V., 988, 1004-05.
Caucus reform, 665, 678, 700, 1135-36. Chace, Elizabeth Buffum, 1068, 1131-33, 1135.
Chafee, Zechariah, 654, 764-69, 770, 772.
Chain stores, 923. Chancery powers, 195, 206, 214, 465, 742-43. Change of venue, 489, 490, 753.
Channing, William Ellery, 1014, 1016, 1051, 1065, 1067.
Charities and corrections, penal and charitable and public welfare, 716, 724, 727-28, 735, 783-85, 934. 937, 1034.
Charles II, 32, 96, 1007, 1198.
Charter, King Charles, 3, 4, 28, 39, 96, 97, 162, 234, 383, 465-66, 469, 472, 474, 478, 481, 490, 492, 502, 537, 561, 887-88, 899, 1007, 1009, 1027, 1127, 1146, 1177, 1183-84, 1192, 1195, 1198. Charter, Warwick (Parliamentary Patent), 57, 75, 77-78, 95, 742, 1027, 1146, 1183.
Chase, Samuel P., 643, 691-92, 800-03.
Cheapside, 842, 909, 911. Cheverus, Cardinal, 1016, 1051.
Chief of state police, 652, 672, 715.
Child labor, 430, 534-35, 545, 865, 1129, 1161-62. And sce attendance at school.
Children's laws, 728, 1136.
Church. Benjamin, 31, 43.
Churches and denominations, chapter XXXV, 264, 1007, 1060. Adventist, 1015, 1024.
Baptist, 31, 52, 117-18, 167, 493, 959, 960-61, 982, 997, 1009, 1010, 1012-13, 1023, 1060-61, 1145. First Baptist Church, 961, 1009, 1013, 1020. Catholic, 32, 118, 170, 344, 384, 583-84, 651, 758, 936, 949, 10II-12, 1015-22, 1026, 1060, 1091, 1094, 1100, 1147, 1150, 1152, 1155, 1197. Cathedral, 999, 1003, 1017-19. Charities, 1015, 1024-25.
Church suits, 1020-22. Schools. See title under "education."
Christian (denomination), 1015, 1024.
Congregationalist, II8, 439, 961, 1010, 1012-14, 1017, 1024, 1050. Early church societies, 1008.
Episcopal, 439, 963, 998, 1010-14, 1023, 1026, 1060.
Cathedral of St. John, 1023, 1145.
Exemption from taxation. See title under "tax- ation."
Friend (called Quaker), 22, 27, 31, 53, 156, 162, 167, 169, 173-74, 210, 214, 313, 345, 385, 415, 439, 993. 1007-09, 1010, 1012-13, 1024, 1059, 1060, 1081, 1126, 1145, 1147, 1199. Hebrew, 32, 112, 118, 124, 170-71, 198, 264, 338, 346, 400, 515, 900, IOII, 1015, 1024, III6, 1147, 1160, 1197. Huguenots, 30, 118, IOII.
Latter-day Saints, 1024.
Lutheran, 1024, 1I45.
Methodist, 1012-14, 1024.
Moravian, 991, IOII.
Pentecostal, 1024. Presbyterian, 439, 1014, 1015, 1145.
Sabbatarian, 118, 214, 384, 1009, 1015. Scientist, 1024, 1039.
Swedenborgian, 1015, 1024.
Twentieth Century, 1023. Unitarian, 962, 1014, 1016, 1024. Universalist, 1015, 1024.
Churchill House, 1138. Civil Service reform, 692.
Cities (not towns), 386, 428, 477, 500, 581, 646, 719. City parks, 1176.
Civil War, chapter XXII, 355, 595, 643-44, 799, 855, 863, 866, 873, 875, 879, 901, 935, 968, 970, 997, 1018, 1021, 1063, 1089, 1090, 1105, 1118, 1131, 1185-86.
Batteries, 603, 605, 607, 615, 626-27, 629.
Bull Run, battle, 355, 600-02, 604, 766, IIII, 1185. Calvary, 605-07, 620-22.
Colored regiments, 607, 610, 625.
Heavy artillery, 605, 609, 622-23, 625. Infantry, 599, 601-07, 610-11, 614-15, 617-19. Clambakes, 1175.
Clark, Thomas M., Rt. Rev., 601, 1007, 1024, 1053, 1056, 1068, IIO8. Clarke, John, 26, 39, 49, 52, 59, 61, 72-74, 78, 86, 88, 95-96, 99, 105, 109, III, 117, 120, 155-56, 170, 172-73, 193, 382, 511, 520, 545, 886, 1007, 1009, 1027, 1059, 1060, 1064, 1195, 1197, 1198. Clarke, Walter, 162, 164, 167, 169, 1009.
Clay, Henry, 563, 566-67, 572-74, 577, 591, 691, 1092, II50.
Cleveland, Grover, 659, 692, 704, 1095.
Climate, 124, 535, 887-88, 1027-28, 1045, 1165-66, 1172, 1174, 1181.
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Coal, 561, 926, III5.
Coddington, William, 26, 53, 72-74, 79, 82, 86-87, 89, 90-91, III-12, 120, 155, 173-74, 742, 986, 1027, 1059. Coggeshall, John, 25, 72, 74, 162, 164.
Cohan, George M., 1068, III3.
Cold Storage, 892.
Colleges and universities, chapter XXXIII, 1137, 1196.
Academic freedom, 970.
Brown University, 232, 264, 315, 323, 341, 349, 380, 402, 4II, 417, 421, 426, 439, 547, 653, 674, 676, 686, 745, 769, 777, 906, 918, 944, 954, 959-78, 982, 987-88, 992, 994, 996, 10II-12, 1025, 1029, 1032-33, 1038, 1046, 1049, 1052, 1053, 1055, 1057, 1060-61, 1071, 1079, 1091, IIOI, 1105, IIIO, 1114, 1116, 1124, II33-34, II37-38, 1142, 1178, 118I. Bryant-Stratton College, 987-88, 998. Catholic Teachers' College, 987, 1005.
College of Education, 432, 540-41, 547, 550-52, 556, 594, 639, 715-18, 720, 724, 733, 783-85, 938, 941, 943, 947-49, 953-54, 957, 974, 979- 982, 988, 994, 1060, 1079, 1129, 1137, 1142, II86, 1189.
College of Pharmacy, 949, 954, 986-87, 988, 997. Pembroke College, 21, 969, 970, 972-74, 997, 1133, 1137.
Providence College, 957, 961, 982-84, 988, 1003, 1005, 1057, 1079, 118I.
Rhode Island College. See Brown University. Rhode Island School of Design, 557, 686, 876, 944, 949, 954, 969, 984-86, 988, 1014, 1051, 1053-56, 1058, 1123, 1131, 1134, 1142.
Rhode Island State College, 556, 687, 714, 716, 718, 724-25, 733-34, 784-85, 787, 880, 894, 895-98, 954, 957, 974-79, 1008, 1079, IIOI, III4-15, 1187-89.
St. Dunstan's College, 988, 1023, 1124, II37-39, II40.
Collins, John, 353, 358, 361, 368-69, 370, 372, 378, 382, 389, 398.
Colonial and revolutionary conferences, 140, 226, 243, 310, 319, 320, 323.
Colonial code of laws, 84.
Colonial morality, 115, 1007, 1010.
Colonial wars, chapter VII.
Colony houses and courthouses, 194, 208-09, 210, 307, 715-16, 718, 724, 739, 784-85, 1051, 107I, 1187-89.
Colt, L. B., 706-07, 710.
Colt, Samuel P., 654, 660, 675-76, 698-99, 701-04, 707, 879, 880, 1097, IIOI, II72.
Columbus Day, 1155.
Commerce, chapters XV and XXXI.
Commercial advantages, 7, 8, 513, 837-39, 1166.
Committees of correspondence, 234, 245, 259, 260, 1083.
Compact theory of government, 234-35, 242, 269, 460, 484, 561, 565.
Compacts for government, 50, 70, 71-73, 1183. Comptroller, 689, 729, 734. See Auditor. Compulsory arbitration, 71.
Confederacy, New England, 35I.
Confiscation of Tory property, 321, 339, 385. Congress and union proposed, 261.
Congress of Mothers, 1I4I.
Congress of Parents and Teachers, 1I4I. Congressional districts, 575, 694, 696, 705. Conscientious objectors, 129.
Conservation, 315, 385, 600, 648, 734, 906, 1115. Heatless, meatless, and wheatless days, III5. "Constellation," frigate, 446, 519.
Constitution Day, 946.
"Constitution," frigate, 444, 446, 519, 520, 600. Constitution, Landholders', 433, 486, 1185.
Constitution of 1842, 433, 491, 502, 537, 557, 559, 560-61, 572, 574, 579, 580, 592, 604, 611, 639, 641, 647, 660, 666-69, 672, 680, 689, 782, 926, 935, 946, 949, 950, 953, 1001, 1061, 1089, 1132, 1136, 1185-86, 1188-89, 1192-93, 1195.
Constitution of Rhode Island, 1776-1842, 468-09. Constitution of United States, 7, 349, 351, 354, 357-
358, 360-61, 374-79, 381, 383, 396-97, 449, 450, 460, 466-67, 469, 475, 478, 525, 527-28, 561, 587-88, 596, 600, 633, 645, 653, 667, 693, 704, 781, 787, 791, 796, 799, 800, 825, 926, 929, 946, 949, 1059, 1062, 1084-85, 1095, 1132, 1135, 1184-85, 1190, 1193, 1195-96.
Constitution, People's, 433, 483, 486, 504, 1185. Constitution, "Revised," 667, 698, 1187-88.
Constitutional Commission, 666, 668, 672, 680.
Constitutional Convention of 1787, 358, 372, 1132. Constitutional conventions, state, 422, 428, 466, 468, 472, 474-75, 478-79, 483, 497-98, 579, 641, 645-47, 668, 681-82, 685, 1188, 1190-91.
Constitutional initiative, 675.
Constitutional prerogative, 465, 472. Constitutional supremacy, 750, 1193.
Contempt, punishment for, 105, 229, 398, 465, 708, 771.
Continental Congress, 228, 295, 352.
Continental notes, 299, 310, 331, 342, 349.
Contributory negligence, doctrine, 774.
Control of militia, 132-33, 165, 449, 465.
Convict labor, 594, 782.
Cook, Osceola, 1095.
Cooke, Nicholas, 240, 267, 270, 298, 304-06, 309, 312, 378, 1195.
Corliss, George H., 519, 693, 861, 871, 1195.
Cornwallis, Lord, 285-86, 288, 291-92, 345, 349. Cortereal, Miguel, 14, 889.
Cosmopolitan Rhode Island, 1I45.
Cotton, John, 49, 50-52, 56, 241, 1146. Cotton seed oil, 881.
Counties, 3, 194, 202, 209, 212, 214, 218, 346, 473, 475-76, 479, 530, 575, 593, 604, 610, 612-13, 634, 636, 681, 714-15, 778, 1148-49, 1155, 1157-59, 1194.
Counting of ballots and returning board, 661, 663- 664, 722, 725-26, 1187.
Court and Practice Act, 672, 708.
Courts, chapter XXVI, 75, 83-84, 195, 202, 206, 229, 383, 397, 471, 500, 575, 592-93, 667-68, 672, 681, 713-14, 716, 719, 725, 729, 731, 776, 778. Cove lands, 717, 789, 798, 829, 830, 857-58, 1167, 1187.
Craig, Clara E., 948, 1140-42.
Cranston, Samuel, 167, 173, 179, 210, 234.
Cup defenders, 1180.
Curtis, George William, 692, 1068.
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Danielson, George W., 613, 658, 1091, 1093-95, 1097. Daughters of Liberty, 249, 1128.
Davis, John W., 658-59, 660, 669, 673, 698, 717, 839, 1055, 1095, 1186.
Davis, Paulina Wright, 1065, 1131-32, 1135.
Death penalty, 533, 594, 756, 761, 1185.
Debt of municipalities, 789, 790.
Debt of state, 348, 604, 609, 610, 612, 614, 666-67, 680, 715-18, 724, 731, 783-85, 843-46, 855, 1187-88.
Declaration of Independence, by Assembly, 269, 307, 308, 350, 466, 1083, 1184. Declaration of Independence, by Congress, 308, 353, 357, 466, 469, 561-62, 725.
Decoration Day, 638. See Memorial Day.
Deeds, recording of, 76, 779.
Democratical form of government, 76, 83.
Democracy in practice, 22, 67, 465.
Dentistry, 1039, 1040, 1046-47.
Department stores, 910, 916.
Depredations by British, 301, 317, 331, 384-85, IOII, 1070, 1184.
Descent and inheritance, 472.
D'Estaign, Count, 325-27, 329, 330.
De Wolf, James, 459, 515-16, 565, 567, 816.
Dexter, Gregory, 69, 92, III, 1059.
Dexter swindle, 792.
Didd, Colonel Linkaby, 702, 704, 1068.
Dighton Rock, 13. Direct democracy, 161.
"Discovery Day," 1155.
Distribution of powers, 106, 383, 500, 561, 574, 593, 713, 721-22, 741, 747, 749, 754-55, 758-59.
Distribution of wealth, 3, 4, 93, 556, 791, 1196. See valuation. Divorce, 472, 576. Dodge, Nehemiah, 862, 875.
Dorr, Thomas W., 428, 430-33, 436, 441, 478, 480, 483, 486, 488-89, 490, 492-99, 501, 504-07, 510, 520, 537, 569, 576-78, 580, 641-42, 644, 649, 670, 695, 713, 715, 747-48, 753, 782, 797, 944, 1061, 1064-65, 1089, 1090, 1150, 1185, 1 196.
Dorr insurrection, chapter XVIII, 1060, 1064, 1185. Acote's Hill, 497.
Algerine Act, 489, 490, 495, 501-03, 505, 507, 753, 764.
Douglas, Stephen, 591, 596.
Downer, Silas, 240, 249, 1083.
Doyle, Thomas A., 593, 645-46, 766, 1053, 1093.
Drowne, Solomon, 962, 1029, 1032-33, 1038.
Dudley, 160, 174.
Durfee, Job, 488-89, 503, 505, 565, 568, 746, 965, 1061, 1066.
Dutch, 5, 6, 19, 29, 52, 92, 117, 781, 907.
Dyer, Elisha (1), 698, 1053.
Dyer, Elisha (2), 438, 669, 698, 808, 1055, 1105, 1106, 1108, 1170. Dyer, Mary, 53, 54, 1007, 1009, 1060, 1126-27.
Dyer, William, 53, 54, 86, 90, 92.
East Greenwich, 61, 106, 159. East India trade, 400, 403. Easton, Nicholas, 71-74, 78, 92, 886, 1009. Eaton, Jacob, 684.
Education and schools (except colleges and uni- versities), chapter VII, XVI, XX, XXII, XXIV, 120-21, 534, 1185, 1196, 1198.
Academies, 414-15, 420-21, 423, 441-42, 939, 960, 988, 992-94, 995-97, 999, 1004-05, 1013-14. Americanization, 947-49, 954, 1153, 1162-64. Art education, 984-85.
Attendance, 534, 540-41, 544-46, 554, 581, 644, 933, 939, 940, 953, 956-57, 986, 994, 1000, 1002, 1161-64.
Barnard, Henry, School, 938, 948, 979, 982, 114I. Blind, education of, 557, 714, 933-34, 949, 954.
Board of, 439, 543, 549, 551-52, 554-56, 681, 714-
715, 719, 727-28, 733, 933-34, 938, 940, 942- 945, 947, 948-49, 951-56, 976, 979, 984-85, 987, 1021, 1075-76, 1078, 1114, 1140, 1161-62, 1164, II90. Catholic schools, chapter XXIV, 544, 584, 933, 939, 982, 988, 999, 1003, 1005, 1142, 1150. Christian Brothers, 1001, 1004-05.
Sisters of Mercy, 585, 999, 1000-02, 1004, 1025- 1026.
Census, 554, 940, 951, 956. Commercial education, 997-98.
Commissioner of, 439, 540-42, 546, 549, 550-52, 556, 713-15, 733, 752, 782-83, 819, 934, 938- 939, 940-41, 943-47, 949, 951, 953-57, 977-79, 980, 984, 989, 1062, 1073, 1114, 1141, 1161- II62.
Consolidation of schools, 940, 945, 955.
Deaf and dumb, education of, 714, 933.
School for Deaf, 557, 716, 718, 724, 784, 954, 1187-88.
Evening schools, 541, 546, 552, 557, 783, 933, 947-48, 954-55, 1161.
Exemption from taxation. See title under taxa- tion.
Exeter School, 724, 725, 727-28, 934, 949, 954, 1188.
"Free public school," defined, 1002. Free schools, 419, 433, 441, 487, 534, 537, 1185. Free textbooks, 541-43, 556, 953.
Funds for school support-
Auction fees, 423, 425, 432, 434, 435, 437, 782. Deposit fund, 433, 437, 430, 431, 441, 478, 782, 797. Dog taxes, 541, 552, 556, 953-54. Lottery fees. See Lotteries.
Permanent school fund, 422, 430-37, 441, 715, 782-83, 807-08, 940, 951, 953, 955, 1185. Poll taxes and registry taxes. See taxation. Graded schools, 428, 540-41, 556.
High schools, 428, 432, 441, 477, 541, 545, 555-56, 933, 938, 949, 953-56, 987, 994, 1004, 1136-37. Home and community classes, 947, 1164.
Illiteracy problem, 546, 552, 554, 653, 940, 1160- II6I.
Legislation, 416, 423-25, 681, 684, 747, 941, 949, 950, 1021, 1164.
Medical inspection, 945, 949, 955-56, 962, 965. Normal School. See College of Education.
Oaklawn School, 559, 594, 716, 718, 724-25, 937, 954, 1187.
Patriotic instruction, 939, 946, 955.
Private schools, chapter XXXIV, 933, 949, 950- 952, 956, 991, 998, 1142, 1190.
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Providence Reform School, 636, 716, 752, 1132. Rehabilitation of disabled, 933-34, 954, 985, 1123. Religious question in schools, 544, 550.
Rural school, 429.
Scholarships, free state, 653, 949, 954, 968, 975- 976, 984-85, 987.
School libraries, 1073.
School year, 940-41, 949, 953, 956.
Schoolhouses, 539, 540, 790, 954.
Sockanosset School, 557, 594, 716, 718, 724-25, 937, 954, 1187.
State Home and School, 557, 687, 714, 716, 724, 784, 934, 954. State system of public schools, 933, 953-54.
Subjects prescribed.
American form of government, 952, 955-56, I022.
Fire prevention, 945.
Physiology and hygiene, 651, 929, 946, 955.
Physical education, 946, 949, 955-56.
Supervision of school, 420, 428, 432, 540-41, 546, 939, 944, 953, 955-56.
Teachers, 419, 429, 788, 939, 941-43, 949, 953. Certification of, 540-41, 547, 556.
Pensions, 941, 943, 949, 953, 955.
Pledge of loyalty, 942, III4. Women as, 1129, 1137, 1142.
Tuition, 541-42, 783.
Vocational education, 541, 849, 939, 940-47, 949, 954, 978, 984, 988, 1117, 1142.
Edwards, Howard, 977.
Edwards, Morgan, 959, 960.
Eldest son, political rights of, 208, 471, 500.
Electoral Commission, 693.
Electric cars, 831-32, 836-37, 839, 842, 846, 850, 853-54, 856, 872, 889, 913, 920, 931, 1187.
Electric light and service, 857-58, 926, 1194.
Ellery, William, 143, 307, 319, 333, 340, 346, 352- 353, 358, 361-62, 370-71.
Ely, James W. C., 966, 1034.
Embargo, 447, 527, 572, 793.
Eminent domain, 667.
Endicott, John, 35, 52.
Engagement for office, 82, 86, 93, 100, 102, 106, 213, 294-95, 942, III4.
English, 1147-49, 1150, 1153-54, 1157-59.
Entrepreneurs, 520, 862.
Epidemics, 1030, 1032, 1037, 1108, 1115-16, 1189. See smallpox. Erie Canal, 530, 888.
Estates tail docked, 213.
Excursion boats, 836, 837.
Exccutive power, 713, 741, 1193.
Exodus, 701-02, 1096. Expunging resolutions, 508-09, 573, 580, 747.
Factory system, 405, 531-32, 1129, 1137. Famme Goose Bay, 142.
Faunce, William H. P., 971, 974, 988, 1068.
Feke, Robert, 125, 1049.
Federal interference, 649, 652, 786, 1196. Federation of Women's Clubs, 1134, 1138, 1140. Fellow servant rule, 774.
Fenner, Arthur (1), 104, 105.
Fenner, Arthur (2), 380, 398, 445, 464, 1086.
Fenner, James, 492, 502, 507, 537, 564-65, 569, 576- 577, 745, 963, 1089, 1092.
Ferries, 196, 202, 212, 714, 821-22, 829, 839.
Feudalism, industrial, 530, 532.
Filibuster, 674, 685-88, 707, 710, 728-29, 952, 1190- II9I.
Filling stations, 927.
Final advisory and appellate jurisdiction, 672, 723, 778, 1188, 1193.
Finance, chapter XXVII, 781-88, 796.
Finance, Commissioner of, 688, 722, 726, 729, 734, I19I. Finance service, public, 716, 734.
Fiscal ycar, 689, 729.
Fisheries, chapter XXX, 7, 113, 205, 213, 513, 735, 782, 783, 785, 790, 887, 899, 903-06, 1159. See pollution and purification of waters.
Clams, 836, 902, 905, 1177.
Inland fishery, Commissioners of, 903, 905.
Lobsters, 905.
Oysters, 782-83, 785, 900.
Quahaugs, 902, 1176.
Scallops, 902-03, 905.
Shell fishery, Commissioners of, 901-02.
Whaling, 5, 3, 205, 515, 516, 900, 1159. Whale oil trust, 402, 900.
Fitzgerald, John J., 626, 684.
Flag Day, 556, 639, 946.
Flag of Rhode Island, 274, 354-56.
Flag of United States, 354, 356, 403.
Flags of truce, 187, 190.
Flags, Rhode Island battle, 614.
Flynn, William S., 684, 688, 706, 710, 950, 1056, II9I.
Foreign trade, 210, 514, 1184.
Forestry, 885, 887, 895, 897, 1168-69. Lumber, 839, 848, 888.
Forts, 296, 298, 302-04, 315, 343, 384, 445-46, 449, 451-42.
Four horsemen of medicine, 1030, 1032, 1046.
Franchiscs, public service, 674, 831, 851. Exclusive, 839, 1187.
Perpetual, 673, 675, 840, 1187.
Francis, John Brown, 490, 568-69, 570, 574, 963, 1052.
Franco-Americans, 1021, 1190.
Franklin, Benjamin, 275, 1081, 1085.
Franklin, James, 213, 1081, 1084-85.
Freenian, E. L., 645, 666, 677, 841, 1132.
Freemanship, 170, 199, 500.
Admission to, 465, 470, 474, 508, 564-65, 569, 6.44.
Freemasonry, 521, 569, 570, 1084, 1088.
French, 5, 292, 324, 341, 343-47, 443, 445, 684, 950, 952, 961, 1011-12, 1016, 1019, 1154, 1157, II59.
French Canadians, 684, 950, 952, 1021, 1122, 1152- 1153, 1158-59, 1163-64.
French storm, 325, 335.
Fruit of the Loom, 863, 866, 1055.
Furnace, Hope, 303-04, 402-03, 406, 531.
Garvin, Lucius F. C., 669, 671, 675-76, 684, 697-99, 720, 1097. Gas bomb, 674, 687, 1191.
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INDEX
Gasoline omnibuses, 853, 856, 920.
"Gaspee," H. M. S., 201, 252, 268, 273, 351, 402, 525, 824, 1059, 1083, 1196. Gates, Horatio, 283, 289, 291, 333, 347. Gateway of New England, 7, 926, 932.
Geography and geology, 3, 9.
Germans, 1154, 1157, 1159, 1163.
Gerry, Peter G., 705-07, 709, 710, 1190-91. Gettysburg Address, 636.
Gettysburg gun, 627.
Glebe House, 120.
Goddard, R. H. I., 701-04, 1097, 1169, 1194. Goddard, William, 227, 268, 710.
Gordon family, 533, 754-56.
Gorham, Jabez, 862, 875-76, 1195.
Gorman, Charles E., 658, 666, 672, 680, 697, 1061. Gorton, Samuel, 28, 36-38, 49, 50, 54-57, 69, 71, 78, 80, 91, 95, 117, 120, 155, 520, 885, 907, 1007, 1010, 1059, 1060, 1154, 1195. Grand Army of the Republic, 637-39, 644, 1118. Grand Trunk Railway, 849, 1189. Granger, D. L. D., 698, 705. Granite, 861, 880.
Gray, Robert, 403.
Great Swamp Fight, 41, 401.
Greeks, 1122, 1158-59.
Greene, Albert G., 567, 755, 968, 1053, 1064, 1093. Greene, Christopher, 201, 273, 275-77, 286-88, 290, 293, 328, 330, 343-44, 1028, 1060.
Greene, George Sears, 631.
Greene, Nathanael, 265, 267, 273-75, 279, 280-81, 283-84, 286-88, 290-91, 293, 298, 314, 316, 324, 326, 328-29, 330, 345, 350, 367-68, 372, 378, 385, 568, 594, 624, 961, 1009, 1056-57, 1060, 1195.
Greene, William, 346-47, 349, 350, 360-61, 363, 389, 408, 564. Grinnell, Frederick, 801, 818-19, 870, 1195. Griswold, Alexander V., Rt. Rev., 1014, 1016.
Grog ration, 141, 143, 342, 461.
Haile, Levi, 488, 964. Hallett, B. F., 423-24, 964, 1061, 1087.
Hamilton, Alexander, 360, 362, 364-67, 369, 377, 382, 559, 562, 565, 568, 571-72.
Harbors, 7, 513, 785, 790, 837, 847-49, 1145. Harkins, Matthew, Rt. Rev., 982, 1002-04, 1008, 1019, 1020, 1025, 1108. Harris, William, 31, 60, 61, 71, 95, 104-05, 120, 155- 156, 885, 1009, 1059, 1195, 1197.
Hartford Convention, 448, 452-53, 562, 795. Hayes-Tilden contest, 693-94, 1094.
Hazard, Caroline, 1043, 1065. Hazard family, 1061, 1063, 1065, 1074.
Health, State Board of, 1033-34, 1037-39, 1040-4I. Hendricken, Thomas R., Rt. Rev., 1001, 1018-19, 1021-22, 1025-26, 1094. Henry, Patrick, 241, 259, 372, 381-82, 1083. Herreshoffs, 884, 1180. Hessian storm, 335. Hickey, William A., Rt. Rev., 983, 987, 1003-05, 1020, 1056, 1062. Higgins, James H., 674, 676-77, 684, 703-04, 720. Hitchcock, Daniel, 267, 273-75, 280-81, 284-86. Holland, Cornelius J., 1004. Holmes, Obadiah, 27, 52, 117, 1007.
Honey, Samuel R., 658, 698, 1061. Hooker, Thomas, 24, 49, 50, 109, 1059, 1126. Hop Bitters regatta, 1178.
Hopkins, Esek, 277-79, 281, 289, 295-96, 298, 301, 303-04, 306-07, 317, 356, 416, 1060, 1117, 117I. Hopkins, John B., 278, 290, 306, 317, 322.
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