Book excerpt: Excerpt from Charter and Special Laws: Governing the City of Providence Under authority of the City Council, by Resolution approved February 28, 1899, His Honor the Mayor appointed the undersigned to collect, arrange and revise the Ordinances of the City Council and the Rules of the Board of Aldermen, and also to collect and arrange such of the Statutes of the State of Rhode Island as relate specially to the City of Providence, and to report in print. The Ordinances and the Rules have been published. The City Charter and Statutes are now published in a separate volume under the authority of the following Resolution of the City Council, approved December 22, 1899; and in accordance with the recommendations referred to therein: "Resolved, That the Commissioner appointed under Resolution No. 75, series of 1899, be and he is hereby authorized and directed, in carrying out the provisions of said Resolution No. 75, to publish and bind the Special State Laws relating to the City, and the City Ordinances, and Rules of the Board of Aldermen, in accordance with the recommendations contained in his report submitted to the City Council, November 20, 1899." In collecting and arranging the Special Statutes in the present volume, it is the purpose of the Commissioner and his associate, Mr. Daniel F. Hayden, to submit, for the use of the City Council and of the department officers, a condensed manual of those statutes under authority of which the government of the City of Providence, as distinguished from other municipalities, is administered. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.