The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-12-07
MEMOIR OF RHODE-IsLAND.
l14l,

The General Assembly met at Newport
on the 5th day of May, and on "Wednesday
the 9Th were chosen.
RICHARD WARD. Governor.
WIN. GREENE, Dep. Governor.
1ssisfan,s.
Peter Bours, William Elfery,
Ezekiel Warner, Richard Fenner,
John Dexter, Daniel Howland,
Phillip Arnold, John Wickes.
Christopher Phillips, Rouse Helme,
James Martin, Secretary.
Gideon IPanton Gen'rl. Treasurer.
The Deputies from Newport were Geo.
Goulding, Daniel Gould, John Crans,on,
Joseph Whipple, Ezbon Sanford and Mich
.olas Easton.
The Assembly, last year, enacted to ap-
point Kings Attorney for each county,
and dispense with the Attorney General.
A Court ef Equity was established to
consist of five Judges, to- hear and deter
mine all appeals from the judgements Of
the Superior Court in personal actions" SC.
The town of Coventry Was incorporated
August l74l.
An order If the King was sent out TO
the Colonial Governments instructing them
to cause prayers (agreeably to a form
sent) for the royal family, to be used in the
church, and the. Assembly passed the
Resolve following, viz:
"Vo,ed and Resolved; that the order of
the King in Council, directing the forms of
prayer for the Royal family, be forthwith
published in the several churches and other
places Of public worship in the Colony ;
aud that the Secretary send,a copy of said
orler to the Minister. or Elder, Of each and
every society in this Colony for that pur-
pose" 3D..
Thomas Potter Of Newport, was allowed
for the use of his house " for holding Gen
eral Elections, General Assembly's Supe-
rior and Inferior Courts there, from the
year 1889 to the year l74l" f1OO This
allowance was made August l74l, ut which
time we suppose, the present State House
was finished in part; being two years in
building. II was not fully finished inside
until four or FIVE years after this time.
At this October session petition was re-
ceived from number of persons in New
port praying for an net of Incorporation for
an Independent Military Company. to be-
called :" BY the name of the Artillery Com
pany "f the Town of Newport" which was
granted the February following.
60 This company has continued until
the present day, with the exception of an
interval during the occupation Of the town
by the British army, and few years after,
during which interval it was suspended, bu,
revived again IN the year 1892.
The British forces in the West Indies,
after abandoning the siege Of Carthagena
retired to a post IN Cuba, where the army
was so wasted by sickness that another re-
QUESTION WAS made on Rhode-Island by
General Wentworth, for recruits To be rails
ed and sent to Cuba.
The Assembly IN October I74i offered
by proclamation, as encouragement f1r
men to enlist, a bounty of five pounds, old
tenor money. and watch coat, in addition
10 the two pound sterling bounty given BY
the King, to be paid on their repairing on
board the sloop Tarter, belonging to- the
C"luny, then lying in Newport Harbor
VIM. Hopkins master. The Colony slool
was ordered to c"nvoy the troops to Cuba
and return home Immediately. The mum.
Der Troops embarked we have never learn.
ed, but the amount paid for transport ser.
vice was f2797-7-4.
State Line.
Commissioners having been appointed
by the King tn settle the boundary line he.
tween Massachusetts aud Rhode-Island
they me, 1t Providence in July, ~bye the
parties were heard by Council. r. Island
had before only contsnded for the Gore
which now makes the town of Cumberland
but now she put 10 her claim for three miles
east of the Naragansrtt Bay, AS expressed
in her charter from King Charles the I'd
The Commissioners awarded r. Island, mo-
oniy the Gore, but also the three miles east
ward Of The hay, which now comprises ,b'
towns of Little Compton, Tivenop, Bristol
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