Providence City Documents ..., Volume 1City Printers., 1894 Contains the reports of city officials for the preceding year. |
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Page 15 - Plantations, acknowledges itself held and firmly bound unto or assigns, in the sum of one thousand dollars, in gold coin of the United States...
Page 27 - When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received, unless to adjourn, to lay on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to amend ; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are herein arranged ; and the motion for adjournment shall always be in order.
Page 76 - ... of said work, or by or in consequence of any negligence in guarding the same, or any improper materials used in its construction, or by or on account of any act or omission of the said contractor or his agents...
Page 19 - Know all men by these presents : That the City of Providence, a municipal corporation legally incorporated...
Page 179 - SEC. 5. All persons who shall not pay their respective taxes during the period aforesaid shall pay respectively in addition thereto, a percentage thereon at the rate of eight per centum per annum, from the said first day of October. CITY TAXES. Statement showing the Assessors...
Page 18 - York, in the City of New York, with interest, at the rate of four per centum per annum, payable semi-annually at the same place, on the first days of April and October, in each year, In like gold coin...
Page 20 - ... by the member presenting the same ; and no other indorsement or report of any kind shall be made on the reports, memorials or other papers which may be referred to any joint committee, except such as may be made by the clerk of either board of the city council.
Page 275 - SQUARE, so named under authority of Chapter 379, of the Ordinances, approved February 19, 1909, is situated between Branch avenue, Charles and Hawkins streets, formerly known as the Hopkins Burial Ground, was taken by the City of Providence for the purpose of a public park, pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 946 of the Public Laws, passed by the General Assembly, March 24, 1891. and City Council resolution No. 421.
Page 16 - ... four per centum per annum, payable semi-annually on the first days of April and October in each year. Such scrip or certificates of indebtedness shall be designated on the face as the State Highway Loan...
Page 32 - Tax; and provides that the sums so passed to the credit of said Committee shall be drawn from the Treasury of the City, for the payment or the purchase of the capital of the City Debt, in the manner before mentioned, and in no other mode, and for no other purpose whatever.