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Page 62 - promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing, for limited times, to authors and inventors, the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
Page 23 - A committee of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry reported, in October...
Page 2 - ... by no means indicates the beginning of the disease. The refusal of food, after it is first noticed, generally continues through the whole sickness, and food of every description is mostly refused. (2) Great thirst. — This is constant, and large quantities of cold water will be swallowed...
Page 190 - Resolved, That a committee be appointed to take into consideration the present state of the university and to report as soon as possible the measures necessary to be adopted to carry into effect the views of the legislature with respect to the same, and particularly with respect to Columbia College, and that Mr. Mayor,
Page 135 - ... that they dare not (for offending you) agree with us, nor come to rules of righteous neighborhood, only they know you favor us not and therefore send us for redress unto you. " Thirdly, concerning four English families at Pawtuxet, may it please you to remember that two controversies they have long (under your name) maintained with us, to a constant obstructing of all order and authority amongst us. " To our complaint about our lands, they lately have professed a willingness to arbitrate, but...
Page 9 - WR Staples, Secretary of the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry, reports that in the prosecution of experiments it was found difficult to obtain a few pounds of straw, and even that "had been harvested more than twenty years ago.
Page 133 - ... contract matrimony within the said term: at cards, dice, or any unlawful game he shall not play, whereby his said...
Page 62 - Board consisting of the Secretary of State, the Secretary of War, and the Attorney General. The Board members have the power to issue a patent, "if they shall deem the invention or discovery sufficiently useful and important," for a period not to exceed 14 years.
Page 75 - the encouragements for ultimate success are too strong to allow the investigation to rest here.
Page 15 - Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, signed by the president and secretary, be forwarded to the family of the deceased.