 | Brown University - 1895 - 1250 pages
...thoughtful people in that colon). The charter was granted, and read as follows : At the General Afsembly of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence-Plantations in New England in America, begun and lield at East Greenwich within & for said... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1833 - 800 pages
...obtaining a charter from the crown. § 40. That charter incorporated the inhabitants by the name of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations in New-England in America, conferring on them the usual powers of corporations. The executive... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - 1834 - 452 pages
...time to time, and forever hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of The Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode- Island and Providence Plantations, in New-England, in America ; and that by the same name they and their successors shall... | |
 | John Frost - 1838 - 400 pages
...obtaining a charter which granted the most ample privileges. It gave to the patentees the title of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence. The form of government, prescribed by it, was the usual one of a governor, assistants, and representatives... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...time to time, and forever i hereafter, a body corporate and politic, in fact and name, by the name of The Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America ; and that, by the same name, they and their successors shall... | |
 | Jacob Frieze - 1842 - 200 pages
...further, we do, of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, give and grant unto the said Governor and Company of the English colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America, and their successors, that the Governor, or, in his absence,... | |
 | John Frost - 1844 - 438 pages
...? Of Rhode Island and its new charter ? NEW CHARTERS GRANTED. It gave to the patentees the title of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence. The form of government, prescribed by it, was the usual one of a governor, assistants, and representatives... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 574 pages
...of each other. The charter obtained in 1663 required, that the General Assembly should be composed of the Governor, Deputy Governor, the Assistants, and " such of the freemen of the said Company as shall be so as aforesaid elected or deputed ; " and it authorized the Assembly... | |
 | Benjamin Cowell - 1850 - 364 pages
...of the Governor and Company of this Colony shall be substituted, in the following words, to wit: ' 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... | |
 | Samuel Lucas - 1850 - 156 pages
...we do of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere f^,' motion, give and grant unto the said governor and company of the English colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England, in America, and their successors, That the governor, or in his absence,... | |
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... the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations... 
