Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... Crandall, of Charlestown, as their treasurer, and desired that he be appointed by the General Assembly accordingly. Whereupon the General Assembly continued this committee with enlarged powers, and appointed Enoch Crandall treasurer of the said tribe, he giving bond to the satisfaction of said committee with surety for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in him. We find no report of this committee after the enlargement of its powers, printed in the R. I. Acts and Eesolves, but the General Assembly at its June session, 1836, appointed-a committee to whom were referred all papers relating to Indian affairs then on the files of either house, said committee being instructed to examine generally into the affairs and condition of the Narragansett tribe and prepare a set of regulations for their future government; and to its report made at the January session, 1839, signed by the late Judge Potter, are appended the regulations made by the committee of 1792, and which, with regulations subsequently made, but when, is not given, it was stated were copied from the original in the hands of one of the last treasurers of the tribe. Those regulations, which, it will be remembered, were to be binding upon the Narragansett tribe, are as follows, viz.: ' In obedience to the directions, and in virtue of the powers in us vested by the act of the General Assembly, for regulating the public affairs of the Indian tribe in the town of Charlestown, and making such rules and regulations for the transacting the public affairs of said tribe, as to us shall seem most suitable to the circumstances of said tribe and the well governing thereof, have made the following rules and regulations: "1st. All leases hereafter made of the tribes land, shall be made by...
