Isn't it a bit odd that the three states of Southern New England ( Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island ) have had state institutions of university status only in the very recent past, these institutions having previously been A & M colleges??

Is it not ironical that Roger Williams's state, Rhode Island, should have been the very last of the forty-eight to establish a state university??

Since Rhode Island at that time did not have such sanction, his opinion was not popular.

This town should not be confused with Pawtucket, just north of Providence, or Pawcatuck, Connecticut, on the Pawcatuck River, opposite Westerly, Rhode Island.

East Greenwich was one of the first Rhode Island towns to enter into contract agreement with the Rhode Island Development Council for planning services we could not provide for ourselves.

It is difficult to pinpoint the time of origin of the state purchasing automobiles for use of employees in Rhode Island.

The Rhode Island property tax

Taxation of tangible movable property in Rhode Island has been generally of a `` hands off '' nature due possibly to several reasons: ( 1 ) local assessors, in the main, are not well paid and have inadequate office staffs, ( 2 ) the numerous categories of this component of personal property make locating extremely difficult, and ( 3 ) the inexperience of the majority of assessors in evaluating this type of property.

These problems are not local to Rhode Island, but are recognized as common to all states.

This accounts for the wide variance in assessment practices of movable tangible property in the various municipalities in Rhode Island.

The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council in its publication once commented: ``

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

Practices in Rhode Island.

To determine the practice and attitude of municipal governments concerning tangible movable property, a questionnaire was sent to all local government assessors or boards of assessors in Rhode Island.

To summarize, it may be said that there is no one prevailing practice in Rhode Island with respect to the taxation of movable property, that assessors would like to see an improvement, and of those who have an opinion, that assessment by the town of location is preferred on the basis of their present knowledge.

Assessors in Rhode Island are charged not only with placing a valuation upon real and personal property, but they also have the responsibility to raise by a tax `` a sum not less than nor more than '' a specified amount as ordered by a city council or financial town meeting.

Through their professional organization, the Rhode Island Tax Officials Association the question of taxing boats long has been debated and discussed.

It has been estimated that the value of boats in Rhode Island waters is something in excess of fifty million dollars, excluding commercial boats.

Local industry's investment in Rhode Island was the big story in 1960's industrial development effort.

With minor exceptions, this expansion was instituted either by firms based in Rhode Island or out-of-state manufacturers already operating here.

What made these new location figures particularly impressive was the fact that although 1960 was a year of mild business recession throughout the nation, Rhode Island scored marked progress in new industry, new plants, and new jobs.

He recalled that in Rhode Island a party opposed to the state's condemnation of a man ( Thomas W. Dorr ) proclaimed the state's action as a violation of the law of the land and the principles of human liberty.

Rhode Island is going to examine its Sunday sales law with possible revisions in mind.

* 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.

The lax interpretation of Central Hudson adopted by Posadas was soon restricted under 44 Liquormart, Inc. v. Rhode Island,, when the Court invalidated a Rhode Island law prohibiting the publication of liquor prices.

* May 18 – Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.

One notable effort by " Providence Plantations " ( Providence and Warwick ) during the time when Coddington had separated " Rhode Island " ( Newport and Portsmouth ) from the mainland came on May 18, 1652, when they passed a law which attempted to prevent slavery from taking root in the colony.

Roger Williams and Samuel Gorton both opposed slavery, and the law passed in 1652 was the attempt to stop slavery from coming to Rhode Island.

The economic and political center of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was Newport for the next 100 years, and they disregarded the anti-slavery law.

Then on August 5, 1797, John Brown of Providence, Rhode Island, was tried in federal court as the first American to be tried under the 1794 law.

Rhode Island imposed a law that prohibited advertisements that disclosed the retail prices of alcoholic beverages sold to the public.

* Rhode Island Civil Court Rules of Procedure-Optimized by a Constable from the law library at the 6th District Court of Rhode Island

The Rhode Island General Assembly gave their approval on May 20, 2009, and the Charter took effect on May 28, 2009 when Governor Donald Carcieri allowed it to become law without his signature.

Several other states including Vermont, California, New Jersey, Washington, Illinois, Oregon, Nevada, Hawaii, Maryland, Colorado, Delaware, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and Maine allow same-sex couples to enter into civil unions or domestic partnerships that provide some of the rights and responsibilities of marriage under state law.

In the United States, common law marriage can still be contracted in Alabama, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, the District of Columbia, under military law ,.

In her book, Access to Justice, Stanford law professor Deborah Rhode says: “ Over four-fifths of surveyed attorneys have supported prosecution of lay practitioners, and the profession has repeatedly blocked licensing proposals that would enable independent paralegals to offer routine services.

Cianci was forced by law to resign from office for the first time in 1984 after pleading guilty to assaulting a Bristol, Rhode Island contractor with a lit cigarette, an ashtray and a fireplace log.

The other provinces did not resist the imposition of the new law, even though, at least in Rhode Island, the rates were higher than they had been under the previous colonial administration.

Ellery started practicing law in 1770 at the age of 43 and became active in the Rhode Island Sons of Liberty.

He graduated from Brown University ( then called Rhode Island College ) in 1802, was admitted to the bar in 1805, and, after two years ’ study abroad in Poictiers and London, practiced law at Providence ( 1807-1812 ) and at New York City ( 1812-1827 ).

A study of police officers in an urban police department four years after the decriminalization of syringe purchase and possession in the US state of Rhode Island suggested that up to a third of police officers were not aware that the law had changed.

* List of law enforcement agencies in Rhode Island