The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-09-08
PUBLIC LAWS OF THE STATE OF
RHODE ISLANDi
Passed at the May Session. A. ID.
1892
CHAPTER 1l26.
PASSED June q, 1692.)

PASSED June q, 1892.)
AN ACT to approve and publish, and
submit to the electors, a proposition
Of amendment to the constitution OF
this State.
Whereas, An article of amer lment TO
the constitution Of this State was pro-
posed by the last general assembly, by the
votes of the majority OF all the members
elected to each house, and the same has
been published and read to the electors at
their annual town and ward meetings In
April last, as required by the thirteenth
article OF the constitution OF this State,
and is now presented to this general as
sembly for their action thereon; and Q
majority of all the members elected to
each house at said annual meeting being
present and approving of said proposed
amendment:
1t is enacted by the general assembly as
follows:
Section 1. The following proposition
OF amendment to the constitution of this
State, proposed by the last general as
sembly, is hereby declared approved, and
for the purpose OF publication and sub
mission to the electors shall be desig-
mated as follows:
"ARTIcLE X.
"Section 1. Hereafter the general as
sembly may provide by generallaw for the
creation and control of corporations:
Provided, however, that no corporation
shall be created with the power to exer-
else the right of eminent domain, or to
acquire franchises in the streets and
highways of towns and cities, except by
special act OF the general assembly upon
q petition for the same, the pendency
whereof shall be notified as may be re-
quired by law.
"Sec. 2. This amendment shall take In
the constitution of the State the place of
section IL OF article w., or the Legisla-
tive Power and shall be deemed to be in
amendment OF said section and article"
Sec. 2.-The said proposition OF amend
ment shall be submitted to the electors
for their approval or rejection, at meet
ings Of the electors to be held on thu
eighth day of November, A. ID. 1892. The
voting places In the various cities and
towns shall be kept open during the
hours required by law for voting for
state officers.
Sec. 3. The secretary of state shall
cause the said proposition OF amendment
to be published in all the papers publish
ing the laws of the State for one week
next preceding the day OF said meetings
Of said electors; and the said proposition
shall be inserted by the town and city
clerks in the warrants or notices by
them to be issued previous to said meet
ings of the electors for the purpose of
warning the town, ward or district
meeting; and said proposition shall be
read by the town ward and district
clerks to the electors In the town, ward
and district meetings, to be held as afore-
said.
Sec. 4. The town, ward and district
meetings to be held as aforesaid shall be
warned, and the list of voters shall be
canvassed aud made up, and the said
town, ward and district meetings shall
provided by law for the town, ward and
district meetings for the election Of gen.
eral officers.
SEQ. S. At the clos, of the polls ON
said dag of said meetings OF the electors,
the moderator and town clerk, or the
warden and ward clerk, or the moder-
ator and district clerk, shall, in open
town, ward or district meeting. count said
ballots and seal mp the same, and shall
certify that the ballots by them seated
up are the ballots given In at said meet
ings OF the electors, the number OF such
ballots, and that the number of ballots on
said proposition does not exceed the
ings, and shall deliver or send such bal.
lots, so sealed up and certified, to the
secretary OF state within i've days after
said eighth day OF November, A. ID. 1892.
Sec. @. The governor, secretary OF
state, and attorney. general shall count
said ballots on or before the twenty-third
day of November, A. ID. 1892. And the
governor shall announce the result, BY
proclamation, on or before the frst day
Of December, A. ID. 1892, and II said
proposition of amendment shall have
been approved by three -fifths OF the
electors OF the State present and voting
thereon in said town ward and district
meetings, the same shall be declared to
be a part of the constitution Of the State,
and shall be numbered as an additional
article in amendment thereto.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect on and
after its passage.