Public Laws, Acts & Resolves, General Statutes
Scope and Contents
Public law & general statute codifications (1719 - 1956) & contemporary publications of General Assembly session proceedings (1764+) detailing enactments of the legislature as found in manuscript series Rhode Island Colony Records; Acts & Resolutions & Private Acts / Charters. Latter initially bound as “schedules." with subsequent volumes containing reports submitted by various boards, commissions & government agencies as mandated. Commencing in the late 19th century annual publications primarily bound separately as public laws & acts and resolves. Compilations first published 1719 with enactment revisions for 1730 - 1736, 1744 - 1752 & 1767. Digests or general statutes re-codified 1798, 1822, 1857, 1872, 1882, 1896, 1909, 1923, 1938 & 1956 (updated annually).
Dates
- Creation: 1647-2015
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
No special restrictions unless otherwise specified.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright is in the public domain unless otherwise specified. We reserve the right to restrict reproduction of materials due to preservation concerns.
Extent
89.96 Cubic Feet
Arrangement
Chronological by legislative session or assigned chapter or numerical designation
Rhode Island Digital Archives
Accruals
There are regular accruals to this series. The accruals at this time are:
C#00275; C#0764; C#00790; C#00876; 1996-10; 1997-64; 1998-09; 2000-17; 2001-18; 2002-24; 2002-36; 2003-17; 2004-28; 2005-05; 2006-01; 2006-07; 2007-08; 2008-07; 2009-04; 2010-14; 2011-08; 2012-09; 2013-16; 2013-54; 2014-13; 2014-49; 2015 - 09 (Goldman donation); 2015:27; 2016-06
Source
- Rhode Island. General Assembly (1643-) (Organization)
- Rhode Island (Colony) General assembly. (1663-1776) (Organization)
Genre / Form
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Box: Public Laws (Published Abstracts), 1857-1903 (Text)
- Volume: Revised Statutes, 1857 (2 copies) (Text)
- Box: Acts, Resolves and Reports (Published), May 1868-January 1880 (Text)
- Box: Acts, Resolves, Reports, Schedules (Published), January 1869-May 1881 (Text)
- Box: Public Laws of Rhode Island (Published), 1873-1878, 1886-1890, 1896-1897, 1900-1905 (Text)
- Box: Public Laws (Published), 1873-1897 (Text)
- Box: General Statutes, 1872 (2 copies); Public Statutes, 1882 (2 copies); Index to General Laws, 1923 (2 copies) (Text)
- Box: Acts and Resolves (Published), 1873-74, 1878-79, 1884-85, 1895-1896, 1897-98, 1903, 1913, 1916 (Text)
- Box: Acts, Resolves and Reports (Published), 1878-1885 (Text)
- Box: Acts, Resolves and Reports (Published), May 1882-January 1891 (Text)
- Box: Acts, Resolves and Reports (Published), 1886-1888, 1913-1918 (Text)
- Box: Acts, Resolves, Reports (Published), May 1888-January 1891, May 1893-January 1896 (Text)
- Box: Acts, Resolves, Reports (Published), May 1891-January 1896 (Text)
- Box: Acts, Resolves and Reports (Published), 1895-1901 (Text)
- Box: Acts, Resolves and Reports (Published), May 1896-January 1899 (Text)
- Box: Acts, Resolves and Reports (Published), May 1896-January 1900 (Text)
- Box: Public Laws (Published), 1896-1901 (Text)
- Box: Acts, Resolves and Reports (Published), May and September 1899, January 1900, January 1908 (Text)
- Box: General Laws of Rhode Island (Published), 1923 (2 copies), 1938 and Index (2 copies) (Text)
- Volume: Public Laws/Statutes (Published), 1647-1852 (Text)
- Box: 1. Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly (Printed: Unbound, 2006-1), 1780-1808 (Text)
- Box: 3. Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly (Printed: Unbound, 2006-1), 1809-1825 (Text)
- Box: 2. Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly (Printed: Unbound, 2006-1), 1832-1855; Public Laws Enacted (Printed: Unbound), 1822-1840 (Text)
- Box: 1. General Assembly schedules (2015-09), 1799-1817 (Text)
- Box: 2. General Assembly schedules (2015-09), 1817-1845 (Text)
- Box: General Assembly schedules, 1764-1781 (Text)
- Box: General Assembly schedules, 1778-1796 (Text)
- Box: General Assembly schedules, 1783-1804; Schedules index, 1801-1827 (2 vols.) (Text)
- Box: Public Laws, 1814-1817, 1819-1821, 1846-1848; Acts and Resolves, 1842-1843; Acts of Congress, 1814-1815, 1822-1823 (Text)
- Box: General Assembly schedules, 1776; Public Laws (published), 1822 and copy of report of the Commission on the Revision of the Statutes, 1894 (Text)
- Box: General Assembly schedules, 1805-1817, 1822-1828 (Text)
- Volume: Index to the Statutes (handwritten), 1822 (Text)
- Box: General Assembly schedules, 1823-1825, 1828-1837 (Text)
- Box: General Assembly schedules, 1838-1848 (Text)
- Box: General Assembly schedules, 1838-1841, 1843-1855 (Text)
- Box: General Assembly schedules, 1849-1852, 1855-1858, 1861-1862 (Text)
- Box: General Assembly schedules, 1859-1866, 1870 (Text)
- Box: Acts and Resolves, 1880, 1882, 1906; Public Laws, 1888-1890, 1902-1903, 1904-1905, 1923 (Text)
- Box: Public Laws, 1745-1847, 1857-1859 with gaps; Acts and Resolves, April 1861 (Text)
- Box: Public Laws, Acts & Resolves, General Statutes, 1923 (Text)
- Volume: Report of the Commission on Revision of Statutes, undated (Text)
- Volume: Index to schedules, c. 1820-1849 (Text)
Repository Details
Part of the Rhode Island State Archives Repository
