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Resolved, That the gift of Thomas .A. Millett, of the sum of two hundred dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 standing in the name of said Thomas A. Millett, in said ground be and the same is hereby accepted by the city council under the name of the Thomas A. Millett, fund.
| Resolutions of the City Council No. 134, ISSO.]
[April 29, 1880.] No. 168. Resolution accepting gift of the R. 1. Hospital Trust Co., Executors and Trustees, under the will of Stephen T. Olney, to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Approved April 29,
Resolved, That the gift of the R. I. Hospital Trust Co., executors and trustees under the will of Stephen T. Olney, of one hundred dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 standing in the name ot said Stephen T. Olney, in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted by the city council under the name of the Stephen T. Olney tund.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 168, ISSO.]
[June 7, 1880.] No. 211. Annual Report of the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground upon the Receipts and Expenditures of the Trust Fund. (Presented June 7, ISSO. )
City Council file June 7 1880.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 211, ISSO.]
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[June 7, 1880.] No. 212. Annual Report of the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground upon the Trust Funds. (Presented June 7, 1880.)
City Council file, June 7, 1880.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 212, ISSO.]
[June 10, 1880.] No. 225. Resolution accepting gift of George B. Peck, Jr., to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Approved June 10, 1 880.)
Resolved, That the gift of George B. Peck, Jr., of the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 standing in the name of George B. Peck, in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted under the name of the George B. Peck, Jr., fund.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 225, ISSO.]
[July 12, 1880.] No. 259. Report of the Joint Committee on Finance upon the message of the Mayor, relative to the Transfer of Money standing to the credit of the Committee on City Debt. (Pre- sented July 12, 1880. )
To the Honorable the City Council of the City of Providence :
The joint standing committee on finance, to whom on the twenty- first day of June, 1880, was referred the message of his honor the mayor, in relation to a transfer of money to the board of commissioners of sinking funds, report : that they have given the matter full considera- tion and after consultation with the city solicitor, are of the opinion that the transfer of the money now standing to the credit of the committee on the city debt, to the sinking fund, as recommended by the mayor, cannot properly be made. The money being within the control of the city debt committee.
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A proper construction of the ordinance would seem to require that that committee should apply the money for the purpose for which it has been appropriated.
As regards the second recommendation of the message your com- mittee report thercon in part, by recommending that a sufficient sum be transferred to the commissioners of sinking funds, which, with the funds for the purpose now in their hands, will pay the notes given for land for the North Burial Ground, which will be due December 19th of the present year, these notes amount to thirty-five thousand dollars, and the committee recommend that twenty-nine thousand dollars be trans- ferred from the money in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated to meet these notes. The committee recommend the passage of the ac- companying resolution, and will hereafter report further on the message.
Respectfully submitted for the committee
J. W. Crooker, Chairman.
Providence, July 12, 1880.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 259, 1880.]
[July 16, 1880.] No. 260. Resolution to pay to the Commis- sioners of Sinking Funds $29,000, to be applied to the payment of notes given for the purchase of Land on account of the North Burial Ground. (Approved July 16, 1880.)
Resolved, That the city treasurer be hereby directed to pay to the board of commissioners of sinking funds, from any money in the trea- sury not otherwise appropriated twenty-nine thousand dollars, to be applied by said board, to the payment at their maturity of notes out- standing, given for the purchase of land for the North Burial Ground. [Resolutions of the City Council No. 260, ISSO.]
[July 16, 1880.] No. 262. Resolution accepting gift of T. W. Gorton, Varnum Fuller, John B. Baker and Elizabeth S. Boyden to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Approved July 16, ISSO. )
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Resolved, That the gift of T. W. Gorton, Varnum Fuller, John B. Baker and Elizabeth S. Boyden, of the sum of four hundred dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 standing in the name of the said Gorton, Fuller, Baker and Boyden, in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted under the name of the said Gorton, Fuller, Baker and Boyden fund.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 262, 1880.]
[September 27, 1880.] No. 332. Resolution accepting gift of William S. Lawrence, Executor, to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Approved September 27, 1880.)
Resolved, That the gift of William S. Lawrence, executor, of the sum of sixty-nine dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 standing in the name of Mary Martin in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted under the name of the Mary Martin fund. [Resolutions of the City Council No. 332, 1880.]
[September 27, 1880.] No. 333. Resolution accepting gift of Gorham Thurber Trustee, to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Ap- proved September 27, 1880.)
Resolved, That the gift of Gorham Thurber, trustee, of the sum of one hundred dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 three burial lots standing in the name of the heirs of Dexter Thurber, in said ground be, and the same is hereby accepted by the city council, under the name of the Dexter Thurber fund.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 333, 1880.]
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[October 20, 1880.] No. 362. Resolution accepting gift of Alexander Burgess to the North Burial Ground Fund. ( Approved October 20, 1880.)
Resolved, That the gift of Alexander Burgess of the sum of one hundred dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 standing in the name of the said Burgess in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted by the city council under the name of the Alexander Burgess fund.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 362, ISSO.]
[October 20, 1880.] No. 363. Resolution accepting gift of Alexander Burgess to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Approved October 20, 1880. )
Resolved, That the gift of Alexander Burgess of the sum of one hundred dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 standing in the name of Alpheus Burgess in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted by the city council, under the name of the Alpheus Burgess fund.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 363, 1880.]
[October 25, 1880.] No. 371. Resolution accepting gift of Mary Alice Earle, Executrix, to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Approved October 25, 1880. )
Resolved, That the gift of Mary Alice Earle, of the sum of one hundred dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial Ground, in trust, the income thereof to be applied under the provisions of chapter
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367 of the public laws, to the preservation and care of the burial lot standing in the name of William Earle in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted under the name of the William Earle fund. [Resolutions of the City Council No. 371, 1880.]
[January 31, 1881.] For the annual report of the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground for the year ending Dec. 31, 1880 see No. 43 Resolutions of 1881 Presented Jan. 31, 1881. Ordered printed Jan. 7, 1881 with Sup'ts report, Resolution No. 4.
[Resolutions of the City Council Nos. 4 8. 43, 1881.]
[February 4, 1881.] No. 49. Resolution accepting gift of Rebecca T. Willing, to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Approved February 4, 188 1.)
Resolved, That the gift of Rebecca T. Willing, of the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 standing in the name of said Rebecca T. Willing, in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted under the name of the Rebecca T. Willing fund.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 49, 1881.]
[May Session, 1881.] Chapter 899. An Act in Amendment of Chapter 313 of the Public Laws entitled "An Act establishing a board of Public Works in the City of Providence "
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows :
Section 1. All lands in the City of Providence held by religious and cemetery Corporations for cemetery purposes shall be exempt from the payment of any and all assessments for the construction of sewers made in pursuance of the provisions of chapter 313 of the Public Laws, so long as such lands shall be held and used solely for such purposes ;
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Provided, that all assessments made for the construction of sewers on such lands under the provisions of said chapter 313 of the Public Laws or any acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, shall be and remain for thirty years a lien on said lands without interest and the city of Providence may enforce the collection of said assessments whenever said lands or any portion thereof shall be abandoned for cemetery pur- poses in the same manner as other sewer assessments are collected or enforced.
Section 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect upon its passage. [Acts of General Assembly, May Session, ISSI, page 7.]
[June 6, 1881.] No. 249. Annual Report of the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground upon the Receipts and Expenditures of the Trust Funds. (Presented June 6, 1881.)
City Council file, June 16, 1881.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 2.49, 1881.]
[June 6, 1881.] No. 250. Annual Report of the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground upon the Trust Funds. ( Presented June 6, 188 I.)
City Council file, June 16, 1881.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 250, ISSI.]
[September 2, 1881.] No. 327. Resolution accepting gift of Samuel . Bissel, Executor, to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Ap- proved September 2, 1881.)
Resolved, That the gift of Samuel N. Bissel, executor, of the sum of one hundred dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 standing in the name of Sarah C. Bissel in said ground be and the same is hereby accepted under the name of the Sarah C. Bissel fund. [Resolutions of the City Council No. 327, 1881.]
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[September 12, 1881.] No. 352. Message of the Mayor trans- mitting copy of Deed from the Randall Heirs of portion of land en- closed in North Burial Ground, together with copy of agreement dedicating said land for a park to be known as " Randall Park." (Pre- sented September 12, 1881.)
City of Providence, Executive Department, City Hall, September 12, 1881.
Gentlemen of the City Council :
By a resolution of the city council, approved December 11, 1876, the Mayor was authorised " to make and execute a writing on the part of the city with the Randall heirs, so called, to carry into effect the agreement made by the committee on north burial ground," and stated in report of said committee, presented December 7, 1876, viz. : "The Randall heirs to quit claim to the city of Providence all their right, title and interest to the land in controversy, now in the north burial ground enclosure. That burial shall be forever prohibited in that portion of the north burial ground bounded on North Main street, within one hundred and fifteen feet of said street, as now located, and that the said portion of the said grounds, within the one hundred and fifteen feet aforesaid, shall be known as 'Randall Park,' and be planted with trees and otherwise beautified as soon as convenient to the city of Providence. And it is understood that such part of ' Randall park' as may hereafter be required to widen North Main street shall be used for that purpose without expense to the city of Providence."
For some cause, the signatures of certain of the heirs have been withheld until the Sth instant, when the deed required was placed in the possession of the city.
I have therefore executed the agreement above mentioned and the city is thereby relieved of the chief obstacle to the widening and greatly
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needed repairs and improvement of this portion of North Main street. Copies of the deed and the agreement on the part of the city are trans- mitted herewith.
William S. Hayward, Mayor.
(COPY.) DEED.
Know all Men by These Presents :
That we, Lucius Miner and Wife, Julia A. Miner, of Lincoln, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, Elisha C. Mowry, of Providence, in said county, guardian of the person and estate of Vashti W. Angell, of North Providence, in said county, Edward P. Knowles, of said Providence, and the said Edward P. Knowles, guardian of the per- son and estate of his son Edward R. Knowles, in pursuance of authority granted by the Court of Probate of said North Providence to said guar- dians respectively, and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to us paid by the city of Providence, a municipal corporation created under the laws of said state, and of other good and valuable considerations, ( the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, ) do hereby remise, release and forever quitclaim unto the said city of Providence aforesaid its suc- cessors and assigns forever all the right title, interest, property, claim or demand which we, or either of us, or the said Vashti W. Angell or Edward R. Knowles, now have, or of right ought to have in and to all that tract of land now wholly or in part included in the North Burying Ground in said Providence, as enclosed by said city and bounded and described as follows, namely :
Northerly on the William Randall farm, so called, now owned by said city, north-easterly and easterly on the Power road and North Main street, southerly on the Gannon estate recently purchased by said city, and westerly on said burying ground, as formerly enclosed and main- tained :
To have and to hold the same with all the privileges and appurte-
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nances thereof or thereto belonging to the city of Providence, aforesaid, its successors and assigns to its and their sole use forever.
In Witness Whereof, We hereto set our hands and scals the first day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventy seven.
(Signed)
Lucius Miner, (L. S.)
Julia A. Miner, (L. S.)
Elisha C. Mowry, (L. S.)
as guardian of Vashti W. Angell,
E. P. Knowles, (L. S.)
E. P. Knowłes, (L. S.)
Guardian.
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of
William C. Chase, to signatures of L. M. & J. A. M.
Richard B. Comstock, witness to signature of Elisha C. Mowry, Guardian.
E. Metcalf, to signatures of E. P. Knowles, and E. P. Knowles, Guardian.
Providence, sc.
In Providence, the cighth day of September A. D. 1881, before me personally appeared Edward P. Knowles and acknowledged the fore- going instrument to be his free act and deed, in his own right and in his capacity of guardian of the person and estate of Edward R. Knowles.
Edwin Metcalf, Notary Public.
State of Rhode Island.
In Lincoln, this nineteenth day of March, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, (1877,) then the above named Lucius Miner, personally appeared before me and acknowledged the within instrument by him signed to be his free and voluntary act and deed.
William C. Chase, Notary Public.
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State of Rhode Island, Providence County sc.
In Lincoln, this nineteenth day of March, A. D. 1877, then the aforenamed Julia A. Miner personally appeared before me, separate and apart from her husband, Lucius Miner, and after having the foregoing cleed shown and explained to her by me, declared it to be her free and voluntary act and deed, and that she did not wish to retract the same. William C. Chase, Notary Public.
Providence, sc.
In the city of Providence, this fourth day of May, A. D. 1877, per- sonally came before me Elisha C. Mowry, as guardian of Vashti W. Angell, and acknowledged the foregoing instrument by him signed as such guardian to be his free and voluntary act and deed in his said capacity.
Richard B. Comstock, Justice of the Peace.
(COPY.) AGREEMENT.
In pursuance of resolution No. 689 of the city council (1876) the city of Providence hereby promises and agrees that burials shall be for- ever prohibited in that portion of the north burial ground in said city bounded on North Main street, within one hundred and fifteen feet of said street as located December 7, 1876, and also that the said portion of the said grounds within the one hundred and fifteen feet aforesaid, shall be known as " Randall Park," and be planted with trees and other- wise beautified as soon as convenient to said city of Providence.
It being, however understood, and this writing is given with such understanding between the parties, the said city and the parties receiv- ing this writing, that such part of "Randall Park," aforementioned and described as may hereafter be required to widen North Main street, shall and may be used for that purpose and taken therefore without ex- pense to said city of Providence.
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This agreement being made between said city of Providence and the Randall heirs, so called, in said resolution, and their heirs and assigns. In Witness Whereof, The said city of Providence hath hereunto set its corporate hand by William S. Hayward, Mayor of said city of Providence, hereunto duly authorized on the eighth day of Septem- ber, A. D. 1881.
The city of Providence, By William S. Hayward, Mayor.
In presence of N. Van Slyck.
Correct in form :
N. Van Slyck, City Solicitor. [Resolutions of the City Council No. 352, 1881.]
[October 1, 1881.] No. 355. Resolution setting apart a lot in the North Burial Ground for a Memorial to the French Allies of the Revolution. (Approved October 1, 1881.)
Resolved, That the commissioners of the north burial ground be and they are hereby directed to set apart a portion of ground not exceed- ing twenty-five feet square, on which a memorial may be erected in com- memoration of the services of our French Allies who lost their lives during the war of the Revolution, and who are buried in said ground. [Resolutions of the City Council No. 355, 1881.]
[December 2, 1881.] No. 449. Resolution accepting gift of Free- born Johnson, to the North Burial Ground Fund. (Approved Decem- ber 2, 188 1.)
Resolved, That the gift of Freeborn Johnson, of the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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
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burial lot standing in the name of said Johnson in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted under the name of the Freeborn Johnson tund.
\Resolutions of the City Council No. 419, ISSI.\
[December 2, 1881.] No. 450. Resolution accepting gift of John N. Shay, to the North Burial Ground Fund. ( Approved Decem- ber 2, 1881.)
Resolved. That the gift of John N. Shay, of the sum of one hundred dollars, to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 standing in the name of said Shay in said ground, be and the same is hereby ac- cepted under the name of the John N. Shay fund. [Resolutions of the City Council No. 450, ISSI. \
[ December 23, 1881.] No. 476. Resolution authorizing the City Treasurer to purchase lots Nos. 12 and 88 on Pine avenue, in North Burial Ground. ( Approved December 23, 1881.)
Resolved, That the city treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized to purchase of the owners, lot No. 12, group No. 7. Pine avenue in North Burial Ground, for a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and lot No. 88 Pine avenue in said ground, for a sum not exceeding thirty dollars and eighty-five cents and charge the same to reserve fund. Revolutions of the City Council No. 476, 1887.]
(January 5, 1882.] No. 11. Resolutions authorizing the City Treasurer to purchase lots in the North Burial Ground. ( Approved January 5, 1882.)
Resolved, That the city treasurer be and he is hereby authorized to purchase of the owners lot No. 12, group No. 7, Pine avenue, in north burial ground, for a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars and lot No.
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88 Pine avenue, in said ground, for a sum not exceding thirty dollars and eighty-five cents, and charge the same to the north burial ground sinking fund.
Resolved, That resolution No. 476, approved December 23, 1881, be and the same is hereby rescinded.
[Resolutions of the City Council No. 11, 1881.]
[January 23, 1882.] For the annual report of the Commissioners of the North Burial Ground for the year ending Dec. 31, 1881 see No. 47 Resolutions of 1882 Presented Jan. 23, 1882. Ordered printed Jan. 5, 1882 with Sup'ts report Resolution No. 4. [Resolutions of the City Council Nos. 47 §. 4, 1882.]
[February 1, 1882 - in effect.] Chapter 85 Of the Registra- tion of Births Deaths and Marriages.
Section 6, Whenever any person shall die, or any still-born child shall be brought forth in this state, the physician attending at such bringing forth or last sickness, if any physician so attended, shall within forty-eight hours after such death or bringing forth, leave with the family, if any, or person having the care of the deceased, or the person bringing forth such still-born child, or give to the undertaker or person who conducts the funeral, a certificate stating in case of a death the name of the deceased, the date of the death, and the disease or cause of. the death, and in case of the bringing forth of a still-born child, the date and the cause of such child being brought forth still-born.
Section 7. Every town council may appoint a sufficient number of persons to act as undertakers, removable at the pleasure of such council.
Section 8. No undertaker or other person shall conduct a funeral or bury or deposit in a tomb, or remove from this state or otherwise dispose of the remains of any deceased person or still-born child, unless
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he shall first obtain the physician's certificate required by section six of this chapter, if a physician was in attendance upon such person who has deceased, or the person bringing forth such still-born child, and shall return the same, together with his own certificate of the information required by section three of this chapter, to the town clerk of the town where such death or bringing forth took place.
Section 9. Any town may make ordinances more effectually to attain the objects herein contemplated. [General Laws of Rhode Island. Ed. of 1882. Passed in substance, June 3, 1875. See extract from General Laws Ed. 1896, in effect February I.]
[February 6, 1882.] No. 55. Resolution accepting gift of Martha N. Hail, to the North Burial Ground Fund. Approved Feb- ruary 6, 1882.)
Resolved, That the gift of Martha N. Hail, of the sum of four hun- dred dollars to the commissioners of the North Burial 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 standing in the name of George Hail in said ground, be and the same is hereby accepted under the name of the Martha N. Hail fund. [Resolutions of the City Council No. 55, ISS2.]
[April 21, 1882.] Chapter 309 An Act in Amendment of Chapter 38 of the Public Statutes "Of the Town Council." It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows :
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