The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1856-03-13

went truancy and absence frsm school,
and another directing the Commissioner
Of Public Schools to ascertain and report
the number Of truant children in the
State.
An act 10 relation to gaming, design
ed to prevent the sale Of lottery tickets,
and providing for the forfeiture OF i'm
plements used in other kinds of gaming.
An act Furnishing by fine or imprison-
ment any person who shall remove or
sffacs any boundary mark Of town or
estate.
An act prohibiting Savings Banks
from loaning to their officers.
An oct providing for two additional
terms OF the Court Of Common Pleas 10
Providence County, making in all four
in each year.
An act requiring Banks and Institu-
tiops of Saving, to make returns to the
Secretary of State, and requiring that
officer to publish an abstract Of the
same.
An act providing for the taking Of
depositions in foreign countries,
Resolutions appropria,iug an addition
al sum of S 10 900 for improvements on
State Prison Buildings, and others ap-
propriating upwards of $25, 900 for the
payment Of certain specified accounts
against the State.
Resolution authorizing an additional
loan of $4,000, which increases the
loan to $4,000, the constitutional
limit.
Resolution establishing the valuation
Of the ratable property in this State.
Resolution in reference to the state
Of affairs in Kansas, aud condemning in
strong terms the conduct Of the present
administration in relation to that terri
tory, and the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise.
Resolutions of amendment to the
= Constitution Of the State, providing for
the abolishment Of the registry tax, the
creation Of poll tax, twenty -one years
residence in the United States as 9
qualification for an elsctOr, and lpcrea.
, sing the pay Of members Of the General
Assembly from one to two dollars pei
day. These amendments must bt
, adopted BY the next General Assembly
, and afterwards by the people assembled
, in tswn meeting before they become 1
part of the Constitution.
Resolutions in relation to the French
Spolistiou claims declaring them due
and urging upon the general govsrnmsn
, their payment.
! The following among other acts were
introduced but not fiuaily passed by both
Houses.
An act 10 relation to. the admissible
ty Of witnesses, allowing parties TO a
| suit 10 testify under certain restrictions
passed the Heuss, and in the Senate
continued to the next session.
An act to regulate the collecting and
assessing of taxes, passed the House,
Continued to the next session in the
Senate.
An act providing for the appointment
or Bank Commissioners PISSED the
House, and continued 10 the n. xt ses-
sion in the Senate.
An act changing the mode of electing
School Committees in the city of Provi
dencc, introduced in the House, but
voted down.
An act in amendment to the Maine
Law" providing for the punishment Of
persons found indsccntly drunk, passed
the S nate non csncurred in by the
House.
An act making Washington's birth.
day, the 22d OF February, holiday,
passed the House, non concurred in by
Tie Senate.
An act in amendment Of the Railroad
act defining tho liability of railroad cor
porations, passed the House, was amend
ed in the Senate, aud finally indefinitely
post poned in the House, leaving the
railroad act just as it was before the
com ncemsnt Of the session.
An act providing for the rs-establish-
ment Of depot which had been discon-
tinued on the Stoningtou road, reported
in the House and voted down.
Resolutions directing the Commiss-
toner's appointed to revise the public
laws, to report an inselvent and attach
men. law, passed the House and non
concurred in by tho Senate.
Thirty -four petitions were continued
with order Of notice, among which were
two for railroad charters, ten for banks,
three for insurance companies, and three
for Savings Banks.
The various petitions for division and
annexation Of towns were seycrally
either defeated or postponed.
Various ether important matters we're
dismissed, but not finally passed,
The Assembly adjourned in good
spirits, the greater part Of the business
having been conducted tremendously J,
and scarcely any feeling excited in de-
; bate or otherwise -