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Report on Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Rhode Island

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PROVIDENCE, August 31.

The honourable General Assembly of this state, which convened at Newport the 23 inst. adjourned on Saturday last, fine Die?

During this session, besides the act in addition to the paper money bill published in this days paper, an act was passed directing the requisition of Congress of September last, for monies to discharge the interest of our foreign and domestic debt, to be paid in the new paper money. An act was also passed directing the L.20,000 tax, which was to have been paid the first of January, to be paid the first of November next.