Literary cadet and Rhode-Island statesman. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1827-1829, 1828-06-14

@-TowN MEETING. The adjourned Town
Meeting was held on Wednesday to complete
the business laid over at the last Meeting:
motion was made to repeal the ordinance
passed the previous meeting. excluding from
the floor, all persons except freemen. The mo-
ton was supported at length by Wheeler Mar
tin. Esq. Judge Branch, Gov Earle, Major
Allen and VIM. Wilkinson, Esq and opposed
by George Curtis, and Benjamin Aborn, Esqs
|. prevailed rs to rs. A vote passed authori-
sing the purchase of lot ofland of Mr.. Pa
bode. The Town Council was appointed a
Committee to select suitable place for
Hay Market. A motion was made to ap.
point Committee to make such alterations
in the Town House as may be deemed proper
for the accomm odation Of tho citizens of the
town, which after considerable discussion, was
Withdrawn. According to the Treasurer's re-
port, the income from the Cexter Donation
will amount to twenty seven hundred dollars
year, exclusive Of the Asylum Farm. The a.
mount Of the town debt is SO ,56l dollars. A
tax Of forty thousand dollars was ordered to
be assessed by the fourth Monday in August
payable IN October, and John Hill appointed
collector. There we're several propositions TO
the amount Of the tax, one for an hundred
thousand, one for sixty thousand, fifty and
forty five thousand dollars which were several
ly negatived. The following gentleman, with
Mossrs. Richmond Bullock, Stephen Branch,
VIM. T. Grinnell, Peter Pratt and Charles
Holden, appointed at a previous meeting
were appointed the school committee for the
ensuing year, viz. Rev. Asa Messer, Rev
Henry Edes Rev. David Pickering A.; Rev.
Francis Wayland, Jr. Rev. Thomas T. Water
man, Sullivan Dorr Esq. Hon. John Pitman,
Wm G.. Goddard, Esq. Amasa Mason, Esq.
Moses Brown Ives, Esq. Joseph l.. Tlinghast,
Esq. VIM. <. Richmond, Esq. Walter r. Dan
forth, Esq. VIM. Owen Mason, William R.
Staples, and W. A. Burgess, Esqs. Primary
schools were ordered to bo stablished under
the direction of the School Committee, for
children from four TO seven years old and for
others unable TO read in the New Testament.
The five public, and the primary schools were
all placed under the immediate direction of
the committee The proposition for tablish-
ing public high school was indefinitely post
poned. The School Committee were author
lied TO draw on the Treasury for the support
oftbe schools, in addition to the sum to be re-
ceived from the State, a sum not exceeding
five thousand dollars. A number of the As
SCISSORS appointed at the previous meeting, hav-
ing declined, the following gentlemen were
appointed 10 assess the tax ordered at this
meeti ing, viz II. p. Franklin, Amherst Ever
EFT, William Sheldon, james u. Arnold, Wm
r. Staples. Tho committee on City Govern
ment, gave notice that they would report a
Charter at the next meeting. From the treas
urer's report it appears that our expenditures
last year were as follows, viz /: Paid asylum
Committee 1870 dollars, ditto towards the
extinguishment Of town debt lS, ,935 dollars,
ditto expenditures Of the town al ,552 dol
lars making a sum total OF seuenty-sepen
thousand SIR hundred and seventy dollars.