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An Act incorporating the Out-Lands of the Town of Providence into three Towns.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted, that from Warwick township, eight miles and an half be measured on the seven-mile line (so called) in said Providence, and a boundary there fixed, and from the said boundary a line be drawn to Pawtucket river, to a place called the Weir, about half a mile northerly from Pawtucket falls; and that, for the time to come, the Town of Providence extend no farther west and north than the aforesaid lines.
Section 2. And be it further enacted, that all the rest of the aforesaid out-lands to the eastward of the aforesaid seven-mile line, and to the northward of the bounds of the Town of Providence, be and they are hereby incorporated and erected into a township, to be called and known by the name of Smithfield; And that the inhabitants thereof, from time to time, shall have and enjoy the like benefits and privileges which other towns in this State generally have and do enjoy.
Section 3. And be it further enacted, that all the rest of the aforesaid out-lands, to the westward of the aforesaid seven-mile line, be erected and made into two towns, the dividing line between them to begin at the northeast bounds of the Town of Providence, at the bounds and monuments there made and erected on the aforesaid seven-mile line, and from thence to extend west, fix degrees and thirty minutes north, to the State of Connecticut.
And that all the lands to the westward of the said Town of Providence, and to the southward of the said dividing line, and to the northward of the Town of Warwick, be and they are hereby erected and incorporated into a township, to be called and known by the name of Scituate: And that the inhabitants thereof, from time to time, shall have and enjoy the like liberties and privileges as other towns in this State generally have and do enjoy.
Section 4. And be it further enacted, that the rest and residue of the aforesaid out-lands, that lie to the westward of the aforesaid seven-mile line, and to the northward of the west line, drawn from the northwest corner of the Town of Providence, bounded north on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and west on the State of Connecticut, be and they are hereby erected and incorporated into a township, and called by the name of Glocester: And that the inhabitants thereof, for the time being, shall have and enjoy the like liberties and privileges which other towns in the State generally have and do enjoy.
FOOTNOTE(S):
--- (1) --- REFEDITOR ENDPAGE Editor's note— Printed in Part I of this volume is the original act of the General Assembly of Rhode Island incorporating the Town of Scituate. The act was passed in 1730 and is considered the basic Charter for the town.