Overview The Charlestown Town Clerk Records contain materials from the town of Charleston, Rhode Island in the 1700s-1800s. The records are believed to have been collected by a town clerk of Charlestown and contain governmental records from that time.

Overview The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management Legal Division landmark legal case files (GRS 2.1b) includes the records of four landmark legal cases.

Overview This record is a log of district court cases relative to employment of children without certificates.

Overview Indentures(legal agreement, contract,) of leases made by and to the General Treasurer.

Overview True copies of orders of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court made pursuant to RIGL 8-6-3.

Overview File papers of cases administered by the court of Newport probate

Scope and Contents This series contains the Attorney General's advisory opinions and findings on legal issues raised primarily by various state officials. Includes the opinion of Hon. Charles F. Stearns as to the proper method of punishment for murder, with statistics prepared by Honorable Andrew J. Wilcox (Warden of the R.I. State Prison). Also includes the opinion of Johnathan K. Farnum, et al. v., 1982 and the Attorney General's Open Meetings Public Records Findings, 1996. This series also contains...

Overview This series includes, but may not be limited to, records related to legal cases brought by or against DEPCO in the mid-1990s. The records include case exhibits, depositions as well as videotapes of depositions,receivership financials and balance sheets; receivership interim operating procedures, and first interim reports, court appointment of receivers, as well as documentation of public hearings.

Overview Groups of documents related to individual cases heard before various colonial courts. Documents include: copies of the case, plea and answer of defendant, depositions, verdicts, warrants, powers of a Attorney, deeds and other documents necessary for the adjudication of the case. Cases are arranged chronologically by session of the court.