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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1909
Page
4
The document notes the Public Laws enacted in the January 1909 session, with chapters numbered continuously from the General Laws Revision of 1909. It records the formal structure and sequence of the enacted statutes for reference.
The act restricts pawnbrokers from charging excessive interest and storage fees. It caps money use at five percent per month up to fifty dollars for three months and two and a half percent thereafter, with minimum fifty cent charges if needed. Breaches incur up to five hundred dollar fines and license voiding. It requires safe-keeping facilities for pledges and sets fines for violations. It allows officers to inspect pledged items held for suspected larceny and details penalties for obstruction. The act defines pawnbroker status for most lenders on personal property and takes effect October 1, 1909, superseding earlier inconsistent laws.
The act amends Section 489 to set motion days for new trials three days after filing, with special rules for Newport Kent and Washington counties when courts aren t in session. It directs notice to adverse parties and assigns hearings to the presiding justice, or another justice if needed, and repeals inconsistent acts with immediate effect upon passage.
The act substitutes Chapter 969 of the Public Laws and bans lobster catching and related gear in state waters. Offenders face up to $20 fine or 30 days in jail. Inland Fisheries can grant licenses to state residents, expiring November 15, with a $5 fee. Licenses include certificates and metal badges. revocation follows due hearing.
The act governs lobster fishing with license display, size limits, possession rules, and penalties. It imposes fines up to twenty dollars, prohibits eggs bearing lobsters, and requires clearly marked pots. Deputies may arrest without warrants and seize violative lobsters.
An act establishing a state natural resource survey under the bureau of Industrial Statistics with cooperation from Rhode Island College and the U S government. It authorizes appointing an agent and assistants to investigate geology soils water power and land use to prepare reports and maps illustrating the state s resources.
The act amends Section 22 of Chapter 283 to prohibit nonmembers of listed societies and of any other registered organization from using or wearing its name badge insignia or rosette, with a twenty dollar fine per offence. effective upon passage.
An act appropriates one hundred dollars annually from unallocated treasury funds for Newport county jail lawn and grounds care. Funds may cover shrubs seeds fertilizers and related items with payments drawing orders from the general treasurer upon sheriff approved vouchers. Effective upon passage, repealing prior inconsistent acts.
The act fixes annual salaries for district court officers across districts one through nine and clerks in districts three seven eight and nine. It also appropriates nineteen hundred dollars to implement the new pay scale for the fiscal year ending December 31 1909 and authorizes the state auditor to issue orders to cover portions of the appropriation.
The fragment shows a legal repeal clause referencing General Laws Chapter 294 section 2 and related acts. It notes portions inconsistent with the new provision are repealed. The text is garbled but centers on repealing conflicting law sections as of passage. Names, dates, and places are not clearly identifiable.
Chapter amendments authorize a sixteen hundred dollar annual appropriation for the state library with eight hundred dollars for books and eight hundred for clerk hire, under secretary of state direction. An additional three hundred dollars is appropriated from the treasury to implement the act, with the state auditor drawing orders upon vouchers approved by the secretary of state. The act takes effect upon passage and repeals inconsistent prior acts.
Legislative act adds six thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars and fifty-seven cents to the Chapter 1158 appropriation for building a new bridge on the Rhode Island Stone Bridge site. The state auditor is directed to issue payment orders upon vouchers from the board of commissioners. Article also discusses tariff changes and their impact under the Dingley rate era as analyzed in the American Review of Reviews.
The text amends section 4 of Chapter 1419 of the Public Laws to provide for annual operation and maintenance of the Rhode Island Stone Bridge with an appropriation not to exceed seven thousand dollars. The state auditor will issue orders on the general treasury upon vouchers authenticated by the board of commissioners. Attested by Secretary of State Charles P. Bennety.
Notice announces the sale of stock fixtures and tools of the Waldron Brownell Company at 49 Bradford Street Bristol RI. Lewis B Waldron buys the store assets Brownell retires from heating and tinsmithing. Creditors urged to settle and claimants to present debts and claims. The notice also records probate court actions in Bristol RI involving estates of Henry H Lilley and Sarah A Murray with guardian and administrator accounts and proposed distributions. Public notices published in Bristol Phoenix.
Comrade William Egan aged 82 died at the Soldiers' Home Wednesday morning after months of illness. A Civil War veteran of Company K Rhode Island Heavy Artillery he was admitted to the Home from Providence on September 28 1891. He is survived by a sister Miss Margaret Eagan of Ford Street Providence. The remains were taken to Providence Wednesday afternoon and the funeral held at the Cathedral there at 1 30 this afternoon.
Comrade Reuben P. B. Smith of the Soldiers' Home died this morning at the hospital there after months of illness. In his 70s, he served in the Civil War with the Second Massachusetts Heavy Artillery and the U S Navy. Survived by a brother and sister in Providence, he joined the Home on Feb 2, 1899. Funeral at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Home, Rev. W. R. Trotter officiating, burial in the Soldiers' lot at North Cemetery.
Bristol probate court on August 27 1909 admitted an instrument claimed as the last will of Andrew Lynch late of Bristol to probate. The matter is set for September 20 1909 at 10 30 am in the Probate Court Room with notice to be published for fourteen days in the Bristol Phoenix once weekly.
In effect May 27 1909 the HT and Hartford Railroad announces a Weekdays electric car service change. The notice outlines new schedules and operating times for weekday service adjustments.
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