Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1847-10-14


or more than one months Imprisonment for
any offence p7ouned, that all such laws, or
dlhanceS, votes, orders, and bylaws are not re-
ipugnanl TO The Constitution aud laws of this
state, or o: the United States and that no law,
ordinance, vote, order or bylaw, for The impo.
sitoh of any rate or tax or fpr assessing or col.
lec'lhg The same or for the appropriation of any
money, other than is herein specifically p:ovi
ded or Tor the sale or other disposition Of any
land, or other property belonging to said town,
or Tor the creation of any office, or for eslab-
Shlng increasing, or diminishing the salary or
income thereof, or Of any office already estab-
nshed, other than Is herein particularly provi-
ded, shall be deemed or construed, To be with
IN The concurrent authority hereby conferred On
said town council
SEC. 8. No law, ordinance, vote, order, or by.
law shall be passed by any town meeting ia
said town. concerning the disposing OF the
towns land, or other property, or for the ma
king tax, or for the appropriation OF money.
unless the same be distinctly set out in the war
rant for calling the town meeting, and unless
hoilce be gwen thereof by application to the
town clerk at least three weeks previous to the
holding of the same, which application speci-
lying the land, or property, to be sold, or leased
oil otherwise disposed OF; the tax to be made ;
the object or purpose for which money is to be
appropriated, and, aS near as possible the
advertisement by The town clera. by him signed
and published IN at least one newspaper in
said town, the three weeks IN succession next
preceding SAID town-mectng, and also posted
up, Tor that time IN the town clerks office -
But any such sale, or lease, or other dIsposi.
tion VI iandi or property, tax, Or appropriation
of money, may be proposed III any legal town
meeting, aud the consideration thereof be do
lierred tor three weeks, or more, to meeting
then to be convened prOoided, that notice be
gwen thereof by the town clerk in coniorIni-
ny To The provisions of The next preceding
paragraph Of tins section aud at said last
mentioned meeting. said notice having been
gwen, The SAID sale, or lrnso, or disposition Of
land or other property, tax, or appropriation Of
money may be legally voted
SEC. b. The town clerk Of said town shall
annually publish IN at least one newspaper IN
said town, for the three weeks next preceding
the June town meeting for the choice Of town
officers, aschedule or statement by him signed,
OF tho tax, or taxes made aud assessed during
Tie year then current, and the several ,appro.
prations OF money, and their Object, voted by
SAID town for the Same period Of time aud
also poet up said statement, or schedule the
three weeks before mentioned in tho flown
clerks office. And the said posting and pub
lishiDg shall be doemod aud taken 10 be the
notice required for the making the tax, or tax
Us, aud assessing tho same, aud for the appro.
priaiion OF the amount OF money named in
SAID schedule for the year then next ensuing
pIOrmcd The making sad tax, OF taxes, aud ap-
iproprIations Of money, be also distinctly set
out IN the warrant for calling sad annual June
town meeting
SEC Z. No bill, or account, against the said
town shall be allowed and ordered 10 be PAID
at any town meeting, unless IL shall have first
been presented To the town council, and BY
them examined and recommended to be paid,
or their objections thereto stated IN writing,
excepting all such bills aud accounts necessa.
ry 10 the calling aud holding any such meet.
ing.
SEC. g. The accounts Of the town treasurer
OF SAID town shall be audited by the town
council, IL each year, at least one week before
the June town meeting for the election "fI
town officers; and the result Of said audit |
shall be communicated to said town meeting,
at the opening thereof, and read, and ordered
to be recorded, previous TO the election Of
town treasurer for the year then next ensu.
ing
SIC. y. The town treasurer of said town
shall, in each year, nj least one week before
the SAID annual June town meeting, cause a
full aud detailed report, by him signed. TO be
published in ono Of the newspapers of sald
town, of all the receipts at the town treasury
and their sources of all the expenditures Of
said town, their objects and purposes Of all
debts due To and from said iown--for and dur. |
ing the year which shall expire at said next
annual June town meeting; or the same as
near as may be; together with schedule of
all property at that time belonging TO said
town and shall also cause said report and
schedule, by him signed, TO be posted up in
the town clerks office at the date Of the pub
LEGATION aforesaid
SEC. TO- The said town shal annually elect,
as heretofore, the members OF the town councll,n
town clerk, a town treasurer, a town sergeant, |
commissioners Of the asylum, school com
mittee, commissioners Of the school fund, a
street commissioner, or commissioners, and
committee of finance aud all other officers
now elected by said town shall be elected by |
the town council, at u meeting to be convened
as soon as may be after the holding of said
June town meeting, and AT any adjournment
Of the aforesaid meeting Of said council