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Statistics of the Board of Parole, State of Rhode Covering Period from April 8, 1915 - December 31, 1925 Inclusive and December 1925 - December 31, 1927 Also Summary of Years 1915 - to 1927 Inclusive

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The Rhode Island Statute Consolidated Commission records consist of a series of correspondence spanning the years 1949 to 1957 which illustrates the process of compiling and annotating a complete revision of the 1938 General Statutes.

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Statutes at Large from Magna Charta to the end of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, 1761 to Public General Acts Passed in the twenty sixth year of the reign of His Majesty King George the Fifth & the First Year of the Reign of His Majesty King Edward the Eighth, 1936

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This series consists of annual reports filed by the commissioners with the General Assembly.

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Docket of the Supreme Court for the County of Providence, [term of court and year]. Type of action, docket number, abbreviations of plaintiff's law firm, plaintiff's name, defendant name, abbreviations of defendant'slaw firm. Some volumes also include names of Justices of the State Supreme Court or calender of judicial terms for the year.

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Function: To record the actions of the General Assembly acting as the Supreme court of Probate. Includes: Minutes of the General Assembly acting as the Supreme court of Probate. Information includes: date and place of session, names of parties present, name of deceased, decisions of lower courts regarding the case, and the decision of the Supreme Court of Probate. In the same volume with letters from the Governor (C# 00499) and Orders of the Council of War (C#00498).

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Measurements taken during a survey of the state. Includes: table number, location of first station, station number, course, and distance from previous station, comments concerning each station, occassionally accompanied by a small drawing of a particular area.

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Consists of twenty nine (29) black-and-white photographs of the Tall Ships celebration in Newport, Rhode Island. Also known as "Seaport '76". Photographs show diginitaries (Governors Philip Noel and Frank Licht, Prince Harold of Norway and John Warner). Also depicted is an awards ceremony at Fort Adams and views of ships at dock and in the harbor.

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Taxation of Net Estates and Inheritances, Legacies and Gifts: General Laws, 1923, Chapter 39, as Amended, Public Laws, Chapter 810, Approved April 26, 1926 (Amending General Laws, Chapter 39} and with Relation to the Provisions of Title III of the Federal Revenue Act of 1926, Public Laws, Chapter 1355, Approved April 1929 (Amending General Laws, Chapter 39), General Laws, 1923, Chapter 39 (As Amended to July 1, 1937), General Laws, Chapter 39 (As Amended to January 1, 1936).

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Articles from newspapers related to the RI Tercentennial. Subjects vary widely. Most articles are concerned with the history of the state or events to celebrate the tercentennial.

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Compiled and Edited by William Elliott Minsinger, M.D.

Content Description The American universal geography, or, A view of the present state of all the empires, kingdoms, states, and republics in the known world, and of the United States of America in particular. In two parts. ... The whole comprehending a complete and improved system of modern geography. Calculated for Americans. : Illustrated with maps of the countries described. / By Jedidiah Morse, A.M. ; Published according to act of Congress. ; Part I[-II]. ... (2 volumes) and 1st Edition of Jedidiah Morse's...

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The Bill of Rights and Rhode Island, Rhode Island: Laboratory for the “Lively Experiment” by Patrick T. Conley. Published by Madison House, 1991. 39 pages. Fourteen individual essays discussing the complexities of local and regional interests that shaped the debate over individual rights and the eventual adoption of the Bill of Rights.

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The Comptonian Platonic describes itself as a "semi occasionally" issued periodical in Little Compton, R.I. by P. F. Little, editor and proprietor.