The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1840-07-08
Laws of Rhode Isla nd.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROV
IDENCE PLANTATIONS.
In General Assen.dls, yanuorn Session. a. D. 1910

directing the method of eIectipg officers in
this State"
BE enacted By the General assembly as toiiolos -
Section l. IL shall be the duty Of every
town or city clerk if absent from his office al
any time within ten days next preceding any
election OF general, or town or city officers or
Of electors Of President and Vice President OF
tho United States, or representatives to Con.
gress. or any election specially ordered by the
General Assembly, or by the Governor pursuant
10 ia~' TO appoint and qualify a deputy clerk,
WIN or without the appreciation Of the town
council or board Of aldermen and il shall be
me duty OF said deputy clerk to attend at snd
once IN the absence Of the clerk during the
time aforesaid, and perform all the duties in.
cumbent on the town or city clerk.
Sec. 2. If any person appointed 10 appraise
real estate in cases when its sufficiency may be
disputed. or any moderator. warden, presiding
ofhcer oil city council, or town or city clerk
or deputy clerk, shall willfuly neglect or
refuse to perform and comply with any
of the duties herein prescribed or any Of the
duties otherwise incumbent upon him by the
election laws Of this State. he shall for every
such neglect or refusal, upon conviction there
OF, forfeit the sum OF one hundred dollars, 10 be
recovered by an action OF debt. or by ipdct-
nent IN any court Of record proper to try the
form or sue for the same, and the other half to
the use Of the State and also TO all the uenal-
lies and Liabilities imposed upon town clerks
and their deputies by the existing law /; Propi-
ded, that all oformations and prosecutions for
any oi the iorieItures aforesaid, shall be com
menced within one year after ,hs same shall
have accrued. and not afterwards.
Sec. B. Any white male citizen of this
state of twenty one years Of age or upwards
whose estate lies ont OF the town or city where
he lives, but who is in other respects legally
qualified TO vote may. whether he has or has
not been admitted free in any town in this
state, be admitted a freeman Of the town or
city where he lives, to vote for general officers
representatives to the general assembly, repre-
seniailves in Congress, aud electors of president
and vice president Of the United States; Pro-
vided. he shall have resided in such town or
city for the term of three months ne xt proceed
ing the time of such vote, and shall AT the Time
of his voting. produce a certificate bearing date
within ten days OF the town or ward meeting at
which he votes. under the hand Of the town or
city clerk where his estate lies, setting forth
that he has freehold estate therein, sufficient
TO quality him to be freeman agreeably TO the
act 10 which this act is in amendment, and
Pror,ded also, that no town or city clerk shall
give any such certificate to any person apply
tfe ueeO or Otn6f convey
ance of bis estate. if his title be by deed, shall
have been acknowledged, and also shall have
been recorded in said town or city. at lsas, forty
five days.
Sec. d. Whenever an application is made
to any town or city clerk, for a certificate in
conformity TO the provisions in the preceding
section of the act, and such clerk entertaius
reasonable doubts as TO the estate being Of suf-
ficient value, it shall be the duty of the clerk
forthwith to notify at the expense Of the appli
cant, the appraisers Of the town or city for as.
certaining tho value of disputed estates, TO ap.
praise the value of such estate and on recev
iug such notice together with their fees, whc h
shall also be paid by the applicant it shall b,
the dnty of such appraisers. or any two al them
forthwith to appraise the value Of such est ate
and make an immediate return thereof to such
clerk and if the appraised value is sufficient to
qualify the person owning the same. to be 4
freeman, agreeably to the act to which this act
IS in amendment il shall then be the duty OF the
clerk to grant such certificate.
Sec. 5. The provisions of the third sec ton
Of the act Of which this act is in amendment,
shall be deemed to apply TO certificate voters as
constituted by this act.
Sec. g. The fees Of appraisers for apprais-
ing estates under this act. and the act To which
this is in amendment, shall be one dollar to
each appraiser.
True copv-witness:
HENRY BOWEN, See'ry.
AN ACT in amendment Of the act entitled
An Act to regulate the Mllitis."
BE IL enacted blythe General assembly folio,ns.
Section /. There shall be annually elected
by the General Assembly in addition to the of.
fcers specified in section eleven, the following
viz:
One Director and Surveyor General Of the
Military Hospital Of the State one Quafte.
Master General, and one Commissary General.
Sec. 2. The provision in said eleventh sec
tion for the appointment Of Judge Advocates by
the Major General. and the Proriso in section
44 and so much Of the iith section as re.
qures tho appointment Of Major General to be
made from one Of the acting Brgadier Gener-
ais. or from one having before held the office
Of Brigadier General, are hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. The word third shall be substitu.
ted for the word first in the FIRST line of section
l5; and notice that company officers are TO be
elected on said third Monday OF April. shall bs
included 10 the notice for company training AZ
provided iu sections 1854; which notice shall
be served four days previous to said third Mon.
day Of April.
See. d. The commanding officer Of each
regiment, shall, as soon as may be, return a
certified list of the company officers elected
and accepting. to The Secretary's office, 10 or
der that commissions may issue thereon and
sixty days from the rising Of this General As
sembiy are hereby allowed for the return Of the
election Of company officers to be made to the
.c.lonels Of each regiment: sad the SAID returns
when so made shall be valid. a
Sec. 5. So much of said act as is inconsis.
tsat herewith is hereby repealed.
True copv-witness
HENRY ROWEN Scc'rv