The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1853-06-30

A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
An ACT dividing the town of Cranston
into Districts for the purpose of voting
His enacted by the General assembly as
.foAous:
Section l. The town of Cranston is
hereby divided into two Districts for the
purposes of bolloting for Representa-
tives for Congress, Electors of President
and Vice President of the United States,
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Sccre-
tary of State, Attorney General, and
General Treasurer Town Clerk, Town
Council, Justices of the Peace, Town
Treasurer, Senator and Representatives
to the General Assembly and Delegates
to all State Conventions prescribed by
law, where Delegates are elected in the
same manner as Representatives and
Senators.
Sec. 2. All that part of said town
which lies westerly of the Stolington
Railroad shall compose one District, and
shall be known as District Number One
and all of that part of said town which
lies easterly of said Railroad shall COM
pose the other District, and shall be
known as District Number Two.
Sec 3. The Town Council of said
town shall and may hereafter at their
next meeting after their annual election,
choose and elect so many town officers as
by the law of the State are, or shall be
required, excepting such as are directed
by this act to be otherwise elected.
Sec i. No town meeting shall be
held in said town on the first Wednes-
day of April next, other than the Dis
trict meetings as herein before provided.
The annual election of Town Clerk,
Council, Treasurer, and Justices Of the
Peace, shall be held on the first Monday
in June. No town meeting shall be held
on the first Monday of June next, other
than the District meeting as herein be-
fore provided !; but town meeting of
said town shall hereafter be holden an
nually at the Town House in said town,
and notified by the Town Clerk in the
warrant for sail meeting, on the second
Tuesday of June, for the transaction of
such general business of the town as may
legally come before said meeting and
all business of said town in town meet
ing which was postponed to the first
Wednesday Of April next, or to the first
Monday of June next, is hereby post
poned and continued to the second Tues
day of June next.
Sec. 5. The Town Council elected as
herein before provided shall consist Of
seven members and said Council shall
at some meeting previous to the annual
election determine the number of JUS
tices of the Peace, not less than three
in each voting District to be elected by
the people. All the officers of sale
town shall hereafter be elected accordin:
to the provisions of t is act, and officer
so elected shall have all the authorit.
and be subject to all the duties apper
tanning by law to their several offices
All officers hereafter elected in sal
town shall hold their several Offices un
til their successors are duly qualified
Whenever any vacancies shall occur il
any Of the Offices of said town, the Tow
Council may order new election, an
such election shall be notified and con
Quoted according to law and the provi
sions herein contained.
See. 6. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent herewith are hereby repealed
but no law applicable to said town G
Cranston is to be changed by this act
except so far as the same is inconsister
herewith.
Sec. 7. This act shall 90 into effeC
from and after its passage, and theTow
Clerk of said town is hereby required
issue warrant for meetings of the elec
ors of said town, to be holden on tt
twenty-eighth of June instant, for Il
choice of delegates to the State CONVEX
ton to be holden on the ninth day
August next, in which warrant be sha
give notice that the voting for said del
gates shall take place in said distri
meetings said Town Clerk shall all
hereafter give notice in his warrants cal
ing town meetings of the places for hol
ing all such District meetings.
True copy-witness,
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