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Passed In Common Council January 11, 1869
In Board of Aldermen January 13, 1869.
Approved the same day.
Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. [City Council Records No. 6, pages 214 § 215.]
[February 10, 1869.] Resolved That the City Treasurer under the advice and direction of the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground be and he is hereby authorized and directed to sell for a sum not less than twelve hundred and fifty dollars that portion of the North Burying Ground estate situate in the town of North Providence between the Smithfield and Branch Bridge turnpike.
Resolved :-
That the City Treasurer be and he is hereby authorized upon the sale of said estate to execute in the name of the City of Providence to the purchaser or purchasers thereof a quitclaim deed thereof and affix the seal of said City thereto.
Passed in Common Council Feb. 8, 1869.
In Board of Aldermen Feb. 10, 1869.
Approved the same day.
Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. [City Council Records No. 6, page 226.]
[February 10, 1869.] An Ordinance in amendment of an ordi- nance approved Oct. 12, 1868 entitled "An Ordinance in amendment of an ordinance in relation to the city debt "
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It is ordained by the City Council of the City of Providence as follows-
Section I. That portion of the ordinance of which this ordinance is in amendment relating to the receipts of money on account of the sale of real estate of any description now belonging, or which may hereafter belong to the city shall not apply to the sale of any portion of the North Burying Ground estate, whether the same be sold for burial or other purposes
Section 2. All monies received for the sale of any portion of said Burying Ground estate shall be appropriated as provided in section fifteen of the ordinance entitled "An Ordinance in relation to the North Burying Ground "
Section 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed.
Passed In Common Council Feb. 8, 1869.
In Board of Aldermen Feb. 10, 1869.
Approved the same day.
Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. [Ordinance Book No. 3, page 56, City Clerk's Office, Providence.]
[February 25, 1869.] City of Providence to Nathan Smalley- $1250-Quitclaim A certain piece of land situated in North Provi- cence in said State bounded as follows Beginning at a point on the westerly line of the Smithfield Turnpike at the South Easterly corner of land now or formerly belonging to Fenner H. Peckham, thence southerly bounding casterly on said turnpike one hundred and five feet more or less to the northerly line of Branch Turnpike, thence westerly on said Branch Turnpike one hundred seventy two feet more or less to the Moshassuck river, thence northerly bounding westerly by said river twelve feet more or less to said Peckhams land, thence easterly bound- ing northerly on said Peckhams land one hundred thirty five feet more
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or less to the point of beginning subject however to the following con- ditions ; That no spiritous or intoxicating liquors shall ever be kept for sale upon said premises and no nuisance shall be permitted to exist thereon and in case of the violation of these conditions this deed shall become void. [Deed Book No. 279, page 40, Providence-No. 42, page 545, City Clerk's Office, Pawtucket.]
[March 22, 1869.] Resolved That the City Treasurer be and he hereby is directed to convey a certain triangular lot of land in the North Burial Ground, north of the ridge (so called) and containing one fourth of an acre more or less to the Rhode Island Hospital : The deed of said lot to contain such conditions as the commissioners of said burial ground shall impose.
Passed March 22, 1869.
Approved the same day,
Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. [City Council Records No. 6, page 238.]
[March 22, 1869.] Resolved That the City Council hereby ac- cepts that portion of the Pawtucket Turnpike road lying within the limits of the City of Providence on the conditions set forth in the reso- lutions of the General Assembly relating to said turnpike passed at the present session.
Passed March 22 1869.
Approved the same day.
Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. [City Council Records No. 6, page 240.]
[April 26, 1869.] Message from the Mayor. Mayors office, City of Providence, April 26, 1869.
Gentlemen of the City Council-
On the 24th instant I was informed by the agent of the Providence
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and Pawtucket Turnpike that by order of the State Treasurer he had delivered to the City so much of said turnpike as was within the limits of the city.
The communication from the Agent I transmit herewith.
Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. Pawtucket April 24, 1869 To the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Providence R. I.
By direction of S. A. Parker State Treasurer I am directed to deliver so much of the Providence & Pawtucket turnpike road as lays within the City of Providence up to the City this day after three o'clock P. M.
James Davis Agent Prov. & Pawtucket Turnpike. Read Apr. 26, 1869. [City Council Records No. 6, page 247.]
[May 3, 1869.] Resolved That the Superintendent of the North Burial Ground be and he hereby is directed to continue the fence of said burial ground from its present southerly terminus on North Main street, on the line of said street to its junction with Sexton street and thence up the line of said Sexton street joining the fence already con- structed.
Passed in Common Council March 22, 1869. In Board of Aldermen May 3, 1869.
Approved the same day.
Thomas A. Doyle Mayor. [City Council Records No. 6, page 252.]
[May 24, 1869.] For the annual reports of the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground see city council records No. 6 page 261. Approved May 24, 1869.
Thomas A. Doyle Mayor.
Report ordered printed June 7, 1869.
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For the annual report of the Superintendent of the North Burial Ground see City Council No. 6 Page 276. Approved June 7, 1869.
George L. Clarke Mayor. Report ordered printed June 7, 1869. [City Council Records No. 6, pages 261 §. 276.]
[July 26, 1869.] Resolved That the City Treasurer be and he is hereby directed to pay to the Smithfield Turnpike Company the sum of one hundred dollars whenever said turnpike Company shall execute to . the City of Providence a satisfactory conveyance of that portion of said turnpike road lying within the limits of said City for a free public high- way and shall also execute to the Towns of Smithfield and North Provi- dence like conveyances of the portions of said road within the limits of said towns said sum to be paid from the appropriation for highways.
Passed July 26, 1869.
Approved the same day,
George L. Clarke. Mayor.
[City Council Records No. 6, page 300.]
[May 2, 1870.] Return of Committee to relay the Old Providence from the Old Smithfield Road to the City line.
To the Honorable the Town Council of the Town of North Provi- dence, County of Prov & State of R. I.
Whereas the Town Council on the 13th day of Apl. last adjudged it necessary to refer the matter of reconsidering the recent relay of the Old Smithfield Road to the undersigned with special reference to that portion of said Highway abuting on land of Charles Davis, E. Esten A. Metcalf, & Felix Mulholland, Report as follows. that agreeable to the instruction of your honorable body after having first notified the above named Parties on the 26th day of April last proceeded to that portion of Sd Highway abuting on land of the aforesaid. And after
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waiting for a considerable time the said parties failing to appear accord- ing-Notice Your Committee proceeded to re-examine the lines of their former relay with Special reference to the claims set forth by the peti- tioners, and it is our opinion that the lines of Said Highway by us marked out & defined & as described in our former report, can not be changed or altered without making the Town liable for damages ; Said Survey being strictly in accordance with the former lay out of sd High- way as delineated on a Plat recd in Book of Plats No 1, Page 5 in Town Clerks office of North Providence to which we refer In regard to the lines of the sd Old Smithfield Road opposite to the estates of C Esten & A Metcalf, it is our opinion that by changing the angles in said Highway from where it now is to the intersection of sd Road with Quincy Avenue would be an improvement favorable to the abuting estates, without discommoding the public travel & your Committ_ would recommend such a change provided the owners of the land on both sides of sd Highway as far as the change in the lines should vary from the original layout, would mutually agree between themselves sign an agree- ment to that effect holding the Town harmless.
Your Committee has also agreeable to your instruction continued said Highway or rather a Highway intersecting with the sd Old Smith- field Road known to the public as the Old Road from Pawtucket to Providence to the City Line, as follows ; Beginning at a stone bound at the N. E. corner of the Old Smithfield Road at its intersection with the Old Road from Pawtucket to Providence thence S. 15° 50 W. 673 ft to a stone bound on the easterly side of sd Old Road from Pawtucket to Providence ; thence S 22°.30' W. 392 04 ft to a stone bound ; thence S. 14°-30' W. 7423 ft. to center of an Oak Tree thence S. 13 -45' W. 5576 feet to center of Cedar tree ; thence S. 5º-30' W. 1688 ft. to angle abt. 18 feet Southerly from the Northerly line of the Henry Pitman estate : thence S. 13°-9 W. 41275 ft. to the range of the Northerly line of Pidge Avenue, so called, thence by the sd range of
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the Northerly side of Pidge Avenue S. 71º-27' E. about 20 ft. or to its intersection with the westerly line of the Providence and Pawtucket Turnpike : thence S. 43º-W. abt. 126 ft. to a stone bound at angle in sd Turnpike : thence S. 52°-27' W. 14553 ft to a Stone bound abt 18 ft North of Northerly line of New Highway or Street leading to the Old Power Road ; the terminus of the relay of sd Old Providence Road by Wm Earle, Andrew Almy & Elish. O Angell in A. D. 1860 making said Road 3 rods or 493 ft. wide throughout with the exception of that portion of sd road opposite to the estate of Henry Pitman which was altered by the Town Commtt. Sept. 6th 1869 & made wider at the inter- section with the Pawtucket Turnpike all of which is accurately de- leniated on the accompanying Plat to which reference is being made. Thus far your Committ_ has retraced the lines of the sd. Old Road from Pawtucket to Providence in accordance with lay out in A. D. 1860 & 1869 making use of the same courses & distances with the excep- tion of reducing the same from rods & links to feet, as far as to the angle marked A on the Plat opposite to H. Pitmans Toll Gate Estate and from thence by actual measurements by your Comm" from the stone bound set by us on the westerly side of the Old Road from Paw- tucket to Providence, 3 rods westerly from a stone bound set in angle on the westerly line of the Pawtucket Turnpike & about IS feet North- erly from the Northerly side of New Road leading to the Power Road indicated on the plat by letter B. we run & marked out a straight line S. 35°-32' W 2145-93% ft to the City line where we set another stone bound. This line which we made the westerly line of the Old Road from Providence to Pawtucket continued on the same course to a point opposite to a stone bound on the Northerly side of North St & on the easterly side of the Pawtucket Turnpike will strike just 6 rods westerly from said stone bounds allowing 3 rods in width for each road at this point.
The easterly line of sd Old Road from Pawtucket to Providence,
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from the New Highway leading to the Old Power Road at B on the plat to the City line will be the westerly side of the Pawtucket Turn- pike as defined & layed out by order of the General Assembly in 1848 and accurately deleniated on the accompanying plat which make sd. Old Providence Road 64} ft. wide at the City line.
The land abuting on that portion of the Old Road from Pawtucket to Providence as now relaid by us belongs to the Heirs of Nicholas Brown & the City of Providence which your petitioners claims to be the Old Road or Highway from Pawtucket to Providence prior to the lay out of the Pawtucket Turnpike and taking this view of it, it is our opinion that said City of Providence or the heirs of Nicholas Brown have sustained no damage by reason of sd Highway abuting or passing through sd land.
The accompanying draft is an exact plan of sd Highway as surveyed bounded & marked out by us with the names of the owners of the land over which the line is laid,
Given under our hands & Seals this 2d day of May A D 1870.
Obdiah Brown L. S. Committee.
· Geo. E. Newell L. S. N. B. Schubarth L. S.
[North Providence Town Council Records No. 10, page 474.]
[May 9, 1870.] For the Annual reports of the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground see City Council No 6 Page 428
Approved May 9 1870.
George I .. Clarke Mayor.
Report ordered printed June 6 1870 (Resolution No. 20) [City Council Records No. 6, page 428.]
[May 16, 1870.] Upon the return & report of Obadaih Brown, Israel B. Phillips, & George Newell heretofore appointed by this Council to survey bound & relay the Old Smithfield Road from the
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Smithfield line to the line of the City of Providence being again read & the owners of the land abutting the same being duly summoned & ap- pear & are heard relating to the same Charles E. Davis Jr the only person appearing to object to the relay, And said Council do order & decree that said return & report be recorded & said relay established, by removing all Buildings and other impediments thereon.
[North Providence Town Council Records No. 10, page 394.]
[June 6, 1870.] For the annual report of the Superintendent of North Burial Ground see City Council No. 6 Page 444.
Approved June 6 1870.
Thomas A. Doyle, Mayor.
Report ordered printed June 6, 1870. (Resolution No. 20) [City Council Records No. 6, page 444.]
[December 5, 1870.] No. 253. Resolutions for the purchase of land of William Corliss, for the North Burying Ground. (Approved December 5, 1870.)
Resolved, That the Joint Committee on the North Burial Ground be, and they are hereby authorized to purchase the estate of William Corliss, adjoining the North Burial Ground, containing about nineteen acres of land with the buildings and improvements thereon, provided, that the amount to be paid therefor shall not exceed the sum of thirty- five thousand dollars, payable in the notes of the city at ten years after the date of the delivery of the deeds, bearing interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, and provided further, that a title thereto, satisfac- tory to the City Solicitor can be obtained.
Resolved, That the City Treasurer be hereby authorized and directed to issue the notes of the city in accordance with the aforegoing resolution, whenever said committee shall deliver to him a deed of said estate in proper form.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 253, 1870.]
A PARTIAL COPY OF
A Plat of the Real Estate of Shadrach Randall Esq. late of North
Providence in the County af Providence in the State of Rhode Island deceased .
being thatpart of said estate situated in said Town of North Providence Surveyed for the Commissioners appointed by the Honorable the Count of Probate
of said Town to make partition of said estole among the several Heirs at law and platted from a scale of 10 rods to an inch und contains 78 Acres 125 rods
North Providence February 18 1861 by Asa Winsor Land Surveyor
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[December 5, 1870.] No. 254. Resolution to inquire what ad- ditional land can be obtained for the North Burying Ground. (Ap- proved December 5, 1870. )
Resolved, That the Joint Committee on the North Burying Ground, be hereby instructed to inquire what additional land can be obtained for enlarging the North Burying Ground [Resolutions of the City Council No. 254, IS70.]
[December 17, 1870.] Wm. Corliss to City of Providence- $35000-Warranty A tract of land with the buildings and improve- ments thereon situated in said North Providence bounded as follows viz. Beginning at a stone bound at the S. W. corner of said lot at the junction of the Smithfield Turnpike and Horton Grove roads so called running N. along the line of said Turnpike road to land belonging to the Prov. & Worcester and Boston & Providence Railroads, thence N. along the line of said Railroad bounding W. on said Turnpike and railroad to the old Power Road so called, thence E. on said Power Road bounding N. on the same 278 feet to a stone bound at land of the Dexter heirs thence S. bounding E. on said Dexter land 920 ft. to a stone bound on line of Horton Grove Road, thence S. W. bounding S. on said road 605-6 to place of beginning. Also a tract of land with the buildings and improvements thereon situate in said North Providence bounded as follows. Beginning at a stone bound at the N. E. corner of said tract on the S. side of the Horton Grove road running S. bounding E. on land of Barton Miller and wife to the center of the Old Blackstone Canal thence W. along the center line of said canal to the Smithfield Turnpike road, thence N. bounding W. on said Turnpike to the Horton Grove road thence E. bounding N. on said Horton Grove Road to the first mentioned bound. Also all my right title and interest in and to lot No. I on a plat1 of division of the estate of Shadrach Randall deceased
1 Plat J.
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being one undivided half part of said lot and in and to lot No. 2 on said plat being three undivided quarter parts of said lot.
[Decd Book No. 281, page 93, Providence-No. 54, page 27, City Clerk's Office, Pawtucket.]
[February 15, 1871.] No. 347. Resolution accepting the gift of William Earle trustee of the estate of George Earle, to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Approved February 15, 1871.)
Resolved, That the gift of William Earle trustee of the estate of George Earle, deceased, of the sum of one hundred dollars, to the Com- missioners of the North Burying Ground, in trust, the income thereof to be applied under the provisions of chapter 367, of the public laws, to the preservation and care of the burial lot of said George Earle, in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted by the City Council. [Resolutions of the City Council No. 34, 1871.]
[March 13, 1871.] No. 383. Resolution relative to adding the whole of the North Burying Ground and Swan Point Cemetery to the city. (Approved March 13, 1871.)
Resolved, That the City Clerk be hereby directed to give notice to the Town of North Providence, that an application will be made to the General Assembly at the May Session, A. D. 1871, for the transfer from said town to the City of Providence, of all the territory belonging to and forming parts of the North Burying Ground and Swan Point Cemetery.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 383, 1871.]
[April 11, 1871.] No. 444. Resolution accepting Gift of $200 from Anna Whipple, to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Approved April 11, 1871.)
Resolved, That the gift of Anna Whipple, of the sum of two hun- dred dollars, to the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground, in
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trust, the income thereof to be applied under the provisions of chapter 367 of the public laws to the preservation and care of the burial lot of said Anna Whipple in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted by the City Council.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 444, 1871.]
[May 11, 1871.] For the annual report of the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground and the income from trust funds see City Council No. 7 pages 51, 52 & 53 (Ordered printed June 5, 1871-Resolution No. 19)
[City Council Records No. 7, pages 51-2-3.]
[June 5, 1871.] For the annual report of the Superintendent of the North Burial Ground see City Council No. 7 page 75. (Ordered printed June 5, 1871. Resolution No. 19) [City Council Records No. 7, page 75.]
[July 12, 1871.] An Ordinance In Amendment of An Ordinance Entitled "An Ordinance In Relation to the North Burying Ground " (Approved July 12, 1871.)
It is Ordained by the City Council of the City of Providence as follows :
Section 1. The Superintendent of the North Burying Ground shall be appointed by the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground, and shall hold his office during the pleasure of said commissioners He shall perform such duties in addition to those prescribed by the ordinances of the city, as said commissioners shall require and shall receive such salary as said commissioners shall determine not exceeding fifteen hun- dred dollars per annum payable quarterly from the North Burying Ground Improvement Fund, hereinafter provided for, in addition to house and garden rent.
Sec. 2. The said commissioners are hereby authorized to purchase such horses, cattle, carts, and other vehicles, and all such tools and imple-
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ments as may be necessary for the proper care and management of said burying ground ; and all such property so purchased, shall belong to the City of Providence. The said commissioners are also authorized to employ such workmen as they may dcem necessary in laying out and caring for said burying ground, and in keeping the lots, fences, monu- ments and avenues therein in proper order, and in doing such new work as they may contract to perform.
Sec. 3. All rents collected from said burying ground, all fees or rewards of any kind derived therefrom, and now by law paid to the superintendent of said burying ground, or to any other person, and all income of whatever description, derived from said burying ground, shall be paid to the City Treasurer, of the City of Providence, and together with the sums received from the sale of lots in said burying ground, shall constitute the North Burying Ground Improvement Fund.
Sec. 4. Said commissioners are hereby authorized to expend not exceeding three-fourths of said fund in any one year, in the payment of salaries and in the improvement and protection of the grounds, avenues and fences of said burying ground, and the City Treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same from time to time, upon the order of said com- missioners and the balance of said fund not so expended in any one year, is hereby appropriated towards the extinguishment of any indebt- edness of the city already contracted or which may hereafter be con- tracted principal or interest, on account of the purchase of land for said burying ground.
Sec. 5. The said commissioners are hereby authorized to appoint one of their own number treasurer, who shall keep all books and ac- counts, which it may be necessary for said commissioners to have kept, relating to said burying ground, draw all drafts upon the City Treasurer for all moneys over which said commissioners have the control, and make up and render all reports required to be made and rendered by said commissioners. The said treasurer shall receive an annual salary
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of three hundred dollars, payable quarterly from said North Burying Ground Improvement Fund.
Sec. 6. The annual report now required by law to be made by said commissioners in the month of May, shall hereafter be made in the month of January.
Sec. 7. All ordinances and parts of ordinances inconsistent here- with, are hereby repealed.
[Ordinance Book No. 3, page 86, City Clerk's Office, Providence.]
[December 21, 1871.] No. 287. Resolution to set off a lot in the North Burying Ground for use of the Grand Army of the Republic. (Approved December 21, 1871.)
Resolved, That the petition of Prescott Post of the Grand Army of the Republic of this city, for a burial lot in the North Burying Ground, be granted with the following conditions : That the lot be deeded to the Prescott Post, for the use of all the posts of the Grand Army of the Republic in this city as a burial place for the comrades of their several posts : that the Prescott Post shall agree to erect on the lot when deeded to them, a suitable monument, within two years of the date of said deed, and they shall also agree to keep the lot in good order :
Resolved, That the Commissioners of the North Burying Ground, are hereby directed to set apart a lot for said post, the dimensions not to exceed fifty by fifty feet, also, to curb the same at an expense not ev- ceeding two dollars per foot ; the expense thereof to be paid from the appropriation for the North Burying Ground.
\Resolutions of the City Council No. 287, 1871.]
[January 22, 1872.] For the report of the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground from May i to Dec. 31, 1871 see No. 366 Reso- lutions of 1871-2.
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