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The Rhode Island Advisory Commission on Historical Cemeteries records consist primarily of meeting minutes, meeting notices and correspondence.

Scope and Contents The presence of African-Americans looms long and large over the history of Rhode Island. Early in its establishment as an English colony in the 1630s, the colonial legislature promulgated a law that prohibited "the common course practiced among Englishmen to buy Negroes" and sought to prevent "such practice among us" (1652). As it turned out, however, this law could not override the influence of the colony's limited natural resources and its advantageous maritime location. By the...

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Spine Title: Suffrage etc. in Rhode Island: Wallace Committee

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Copies of Letters from the American Archives Series 1775, 1776, 1780-1781.

Scope and Contents Includes the publication American Historical Oration by B.L. Hénin. Includes the following three speeches: The Help of the French Nation During the American Revolution 1780; Purchase of the Island of Manhattan Foundation of New York 1624; and Prejudice of Historians. The oration was delivered on July 14, 1928 in Newport, R.I. at the inauguration of the monument erected in Newport, R.I., to commemorate the landing in 1780 on the cliffs on Newport, of the French troops which came...

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The collection consists of thirty-five models of early American patents issued to citizens of Rhode Island. These models were the originals filed with the United States Patent Office, and subsequently released for public sale by the United States government. They were purchased by Antoine Gazda and gifted to the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations by Mr. Gazda in 1945.

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A publication designed to provide the citizens of Rhode Island an easily understandable survey of the state government so that the government remains comprehensible and accessible.

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Ancestors and Immigrants: A Changing New England Tradition by Barbara Miller Solomon published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York. © 1956, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. 276 pages.

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Rhode Island State Police Creed: "You are Always to Remember that You are in the Department of State Police, and in the Service of the State. It is a Call of Honor. It Requires Unselfish Devotion to Duty, the Highest Type of Honesty and Downright Courage."

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Twenty-First Annual Report of the Bank Commissioner Showing the Condition of State Banking Institutions as of June 30, 1928 made to the General Assembly at its January Session 1929

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Includes annual reports from 1907 to 1918 and 1920 to 1927.

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Includes annual reports from 1949-1951 and 1953-1963.

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Includes annual reports from 1951-1955, 1961-1962, and 1965. Annual Reports include minutes from annual meetings.

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Includes annual reports from 1961, 1966, 1967 & 1968.