next preceding such payments, not exceeding ten dol. lars for each quarter year for travelling expenses; but : such payments in the aggregate for such travelling expenses shall not exceed the sum of two thousand dollars in any one year, and shall be made to the respective pupils entitled to the same in proportion to the distance they may reside from said school.” SEC. 2. This act shall take effect on and after its passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. CHAPTER 420. Passed Oct. 2. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 65 OF THE GENERAL 1896. LAWS, ENTITLED “GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: Powers of school com of Providence. SECTION 1. Sections 9 and 10 of Chapter 65 of the General Laws are hereby repealed. SEC. 2. In the city of Providence the school committee of city mittee of said city shall hereafter employ the superin tendent and teachers, have charge and custody of all school buildings and school property, manage and regulate the schools, and draw all orders for the pay. ment of their expenses from the money appropriated by the city council for the support of public schools: Provided, however, that the city council of said city shall have the expenditure of all sums appropriated for the purchase of land for school purposes or for the improvement of the same or for the construction or repair of school buildings. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. CHAPTER 421. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 229, SECTION 14, OF Passed Oct. 2, 1896. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: dents of de- state reform warden of the not required to certain cases, SECTION 1. Section 14 of Chapter 229 of the Gen- Superinten- “SEC. 14. Whenever any agent of the Rhode Island school and SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately, and CHAPTER 422. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 274 OF THE GEN- ERAL LAWS. Passed Oct. 2, It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows : SECTION 1. Section 58 of Chapter 274 of the Gen- “SEC. 58. The costs and expenses of administra- tion in proceedings under this Chapter, including registers' and clerks' compensation and expenses, the expenses and compensation of the assignee, and the reasonable fees of his counsel and attorney, shall be first paid in full out of the insolvent estate, in the order named. Sums due to the United States, to the State of Rhode Island, to any town or municipalty in said state, and for the wages of labor performed with. in six months next prior to the adjudication in insol. vency, not exceeding one hundred dollars to any one person, and costs in cases upon which attachments or levies are made, which are dissolved under the pro- visions of this chapter, to the date of such dissolution, shall be next paid in full out of the insolvent estate, SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent here- Passed Oct. 2, AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE QUARTERMASTER GENERAL, UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE GOVERNOR, TO PUR- CHASE FOUR CAISSONS WITH LIMBERS, FOR THE USE OF THE FIRST MACHINE GUN BATTERY, AND MAKING AN. tery, R. I. M. SECTION 1. The quartermaster general, under the se direction of the governor, is hereby directed to cause Bat- to be constructed four caissons with limbers for use of the First Machine Gun Battery, Brigade R. I. M. SEC. 2. The sum of sixteen hundred dollars, or so AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF AN ACT, ENTITLED “AN ACT TO Passed Oct. 2, ESTABLISH A HARBOR LINE IN THE HARBOR, IN THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE, BETWEEN FOX POINT AND THE RAIL- ROAD BRIDGE AT INDIA POINT,” PASSED JANUARY 31st, SECTION 1. The harbor line defined on a plan Harbor line in showing the harbor line from Fox Point to the rail. tween Fox road bridge at India Point, Providence, May 28, 1864, surveyed and platted by Cushing and DeWitt, and re- defined. corded in the city clerk's office in the city of Provi- dence, in book of plats No. 5, page 47, and subse- quently altered by Chapter 914 of the Public Laws, is hereby altered, defined and established as follows, “Beginning at the point marked “K” on said plat and deflecting 4° 55' 20" southerly from the old line “K-L” on said plat, and running on a course N. 73° 4' 40" E. a distance of 382.15 feet to an intersection with the line between the points marked “M” and “N” on said plat, at a point 44.69 feet easterly from the point marked “M” on said plat.” Passed Oct. 2, AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE TO HIRE THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOL- LARS TO BE EXCLUSIVELY USED AND EXPENDED FOR THE COMPLETION OF THE WORK UPON ROGER WILLIAMS PARK AND BLACKSTONE PARK, INCLUDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGES AND DRIVEWAYS IN SAID PARKS, AND ALSO It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows : SECTION 1. The city of Providence is hereby au- ized to hire the thorized and empowered to hire the sum of one hun- completion ofn dred and fifty thousand dollars, to be exclusively used and expended for the completion of the work upon Roger Williams Park and Blackstone Park, including the construction of bridges and driveways in said parks, and also for completing the Blackstone Boule- vard "Parkway, and to issue its notes and bonds, or either therefor, for such time, and in such amounts, as · may be fixed by the city council thereof. SEC. 2. The city council shall annually appropriate, until said notes and bonds are paid in full, besides a sum to pay the interest thereon, a sum to be placed as a sinking fund, sufficient for the redemption of said notes and bonds when due, and all premiums arising from the sale of said notes and bonds shall be placed to the credit of said sinking fund. Passed Oct. 2, AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE TO HIRE THE SUM OF SEVENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS EOR THE CTION au. |