The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-07-23
CHAPTER 1853.

nnmbersd eoniinvouslY from ths general
laws, revision OF 1891
CHAPTER 1853
AN ACT in amendment OF the General
Laws, chapter 2S5, sections GO and 81.
PASSED March 81. lsoa)
1t Is enacted by the General Assembly
as follows:
Section /. Section 6s. Chapter &5. Of
the General Laws Is hereby amended to
read as follows:
"Seo &C. Any justice OF either division
of the supreme court may appoint, when
ever occasion may require, one or moro
attorneys 20 conduct In either or both
divisions of the supreme court, the de-
fence or any INDECENT person charged with
any offence against the laws or the
state"
Sec. g. Section 81 Chapter s5. OF the
General Laws is hereby amended so as 10
read as follows:
Section g. The attorney or attorneys
20 appointed shall receive for the services
rendered In conducting the defence of
such INDECENT person reasonable com
pensatfon. 20 be allowed by the presiding
Justice or Justices OF the court In which
the services are rendered. Provided, that.
except in the defence of INDECENT persons
charged with a ca pital offence, such COM
pensation shall not exceed fifteen dollars
per day for every day necessarily em-
ployed in conducting such defence. or In
case no trial shall be had such attorney
tor attorneys shall receive not exceeding
ten dollars for the services rendered In
such cause, and shall also receive the
necessary disbursements made therein, 10
be allowed by the presiding justice or JUS
tices OF the division OF the supreme court
In which the services are rendered, which
sums shall be paid out OF any money IN
the treasury not otherwise appropriated:
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except In the trials OF any INDECENT per-
son indicted FOR murder. the attorney or
attorneys so appointed shall not receive
pay for more than two days In the trial
OF any one care.'
Sec. 3. All acts and parts OF acts in
consistent herewith are hereby repealed.
Sec. A. This act shall take effect from
and after It's passage.
CHAPTER 1884
AN ACT in amendment of Chapter 80 of
the general laws. entitled "Of burial Of
honorably discharged soldiers"
(Passed April 7, 1904)
IL Is enacted by the general assembly
as follows:
Section ]. Whenever any person who
served In the army. navy or marine corps
OF the United States during any period
of war. and was honorably discharged
therefrom. shah die within this state
without leaving means sufficient TO defray
necessary funeral expenses. he shall be
buried and the expenses thereof paid IN
the manner hereafter provided.
Sec. 2. The town council OF any town
and the board OF aldermen OF any city,
shall annually designate some proper per-
son. other than those designated by law
for the care of paupers or the custody
OF criminals, who shall cause TO be in
TERED the body OF such honorably dis
charged soldier. sailor. or marine who
may not have left sufficient means TO pay
his funeral expenses: and In case the
deceased has relatives OF friends who de-
sire to conduct the burial and who are
unable or unwilling 10 pay The scharge
thereof, they shall he allowed TO conduct
the funeral and the cost OF said inter
rnent shall be paid TO them or their repre-
sentatives by the town or city treasurer
upon due proof: Provided, however, that
claim for the payment Of vhe same under
the provisions OF This chapter shall be
made within sixty days after the decease
OF such honorably discharged soldier. sail
or OF marine; and provided that the
whole expense of such funeral shall not
In any case exceed the sum OF thirty five
dollars.
Sec. & Any interment provided for ty
the provisions of this chapter shall not be
mt de In any carateFy-er plot Used ex-
clusively for the pauper dead; and IL any
such deceased honorably discharged
soldier. sailor. or marine may have al
ready died and been buried In any place
used exclusively for the burial OF paupers.
they shah be removed therefrom as soon
as may be after the attention OF the town
or city council within whose limits such
person may have been buried shall have
been called thereto.
Sec 4. The grave OF any deceased
soldier sailor. or marine who may be
buried under provisions OF this chapter
shall be marked by n headstone contain
ing the name OF the deceased and if
possible, the organization to whicn he
belonged or in which he served Such
fesdStone shall cost not more than 1ftesn
dollars. and the expense OF such head
stone and burial shall be n charge upon
and shall be paid by the town or city
in Witch the said soldier, sailor or marine
may have died.
Sec. g. Nothing In this chapter con-
tained shall be construed to require the
town treasurer OF the town of Cranston
10 pay any money to meet the funeral
expenses OF, or the erection OF any heed
stone for, any person who shall have
died at any OF the state institutions in
said Cranston, unless admitted or COM
mitted from said town; but the treasurer
of the town or city from which said per-
son was admitted. or from which he has
been committed. shall he liable for and
shall pay the funeral expenses and for the
erection OF a headstone as provided In
this chapter.
Sec. 6. Au acts and parts OF acts In
consistent herewith are hereby repealed
and this act shall take effect from and
after its pssage.
CHAPTER 1855.
AN ACT To Validate the Acts Of @
Walter Barneheld "a a Notary Public.
PASSED April s. lao4)
II is enacted by the General Assepo,,i,,