The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1824-07-08

Lie ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SenasoTs, and Nepre
.entanves, Secretary, Attorney General, and
I General Treasurer, under said Constiiulion
shall be had on the third Wednesday of. Ap,i
next preceding. All civil, judicial and mill.
tafy officers, now appointed. or who shall
! hereafter be appointed by the General Assem-.
| bly,, or other eompe,ent authority, before the
said hrsi Tuesday oi May, shall held their Of
ices and msy exercise their powers, until ten
days thereafter. An laws now in force, and
not fepugnsnt 10 this Constitution, shall con.
tinne IN iofce, until they expire by their own
| limitation, or arefepesledhy the General AS
| semby All charters, contracts, judgments, },
actions, and rights oi sc,ion, shall be ss valio,
| as though tLis Constitution had not been
| made. The present government shall exe..
else all the powers, n0 fepugnant TO this
CONSTITUTION, with which i, is now clothed, ua-
al The said frs, Tuesday of May, one thJu.
send eigh, hundied and tweoly FIVE.
=. All debts contacted, end engagements
Snie'ed into, before The adoption OF this Con.
| sti'ution, shall be DC valid against the State,
| ss u this Constitution had noi been formed.
g. This Constitution shall be the Supreme Law as
the State and the Judges of all the Courts. and oil
other officers, whether civil military, shall be
bound, by oath shrmstion, TO its due observance
The supreme judicial Court, established by this
Constitution, shall have the same Jurisdiction the
supreme judicial Court. at present established, and
shall have jurisdiction Of all causes, which may be
appealed to, pending 10 The same, aud shall be
holden at the same times and places in each county.
as the present Supreme Jddicisl Court. until The
Legislature shall otherwise prescribe.
5. The Circuit Court Of Common Pleas and Geness,
Sessions Of the Peace, shall have the same jursdc.
tion as the present Courts Of Common Peas and
General Sessions Of the Peace, in the several coun.
ties, ard shall have jurisdiction Of all causes which
may be appealed 10, or pend,ng in, the said Courts
OF Common Pleas and General Sessions of The Peace
IN the respective countless and shall be holden at
the same times and places in the respective coun-
ties, as the said Courts Of Common Pleas, until the
Legislature shai! otherwise prescribe Aud all writs
and processes which may be made returnable TO the
sand Courts OF Common Pleas and General Sessions
of the Peace, shall be returned TO, aud Tie pro-
ceedings shall be had lhcreon in the said Circuit
Court of Common Pleas in each county. as might
have been had thereon. IN the said Courts of Com.
mon Pleas and General Sessions of the Peace.
ELlslIAR POTTER, PresiGea.
e/h The CgHccalios
Attest -
S"n!;DHgHsn %nncGSn A nTnSns. e S2snIss' sssr.ssr
STATE Of Rh0de- Island, sc.
July s, 1929.
In Convention:--
Resolved, that town meetings be hol-
den in the several towns in this State, OH
the second Monday of October next
that at such town-meetings the Consti-
tuition, framed by this Convention, be sub.
nIitted to the Freemcn for their ratihca.
ton, in the manner prescribed by an act
of the General Assembly of this State,
entitled !" An act to aYthorise the holding
a Convention for the purpose of framing
a written Constitution of Government
Tor this State "and that the sevcra! Town
Clerks in this State shall issue the usual
warrants or notices for holding said town.
meetings, at least thirty days beture the
said second Monday CT October next.
CnnIsroPnER Z. ROBBINS, s.,r>,,r;.,
WELCOME A. BuRoEs,