...adopted at an adjourned session, held in East Greenwich, in February, 1764 :— At the General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the English Colony...Providence Plantations, in New England, in America, begun and holden by adjournment, at East Greenwich, within and for the Colony aforesaid, on the last...

...adopted at an adjourned session, held in East Greenwich, in February, 1.764:— At the General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the English Colony...Providence Plantations, in New England, in America, begun and holden by adjournment, at East Greenwich, within and for the Colony aforesaid, on the last...

...charter, which is surely a brand plucked out of the burning, is as follows : " At the General Assembly " of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode " Island and Providence Plantations, &c., &c.," [the charter at large to follow]. This charter lay dormant for about two years, except that...

...whom these Present» shall come, GREETING : I, WILLIAM READ, of Newport, in the County of Newport, in the English Colony of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America, merchant, for and consideration of the love of my country and an ardent desire to perpetuate to the...

...admitted electors or freemen to the end of time, were given the irrevocable privileges of being " one body corporate and politic in fact and name, by the...the governor and company of the English colony of Connecticut in New England in America, and that by the same name they and their successors, should...

...held at Newport, then and there to consult, advise, determine in and about the affairs and business of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." Year after year, has this ancient custom and ordinance been observed by the good people of Rhode Island....

...authority of the Governor and Company of this Colony shall be substituted in the following words : — u The Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations." That all such commissions, writs and processes shall be otherwise of the same form and tenor as they...

...The charter granted by Charles I to certain persons, creating them " one body politique and corporate in fact and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the Mattachusetts Bay in New England," is dated March 4, 1628-9. It provides for yearly elections of a...

...eharter grunted by Charle* I to eertain persons, ereating them "one body politique and eorporate in faet and name, by the name of the Governor and Company of the Mattaehusetts Bay in New England," 13 dated Mareh 1. 1(528-1). It provides for yearly eleetions of...

...certificate of incorporation, and their successors, could, "for the term of twenty years next .... be a body corporate and politic in fact and name, by the name stated in such certificate"; and that they and their successors could have continual succession and...